That’s the story the US keeps telling us ever since to explain away their own atrocities but it isn’t backed up by any data whatsoever. It’s pure vibes so we don’t think about how insanely inhumane nuclear weapons are. There is no evidence nuclear bombings were a major factor in the decision to finally surrender but it’s a fact they were already losing hard before the bombings. It was a matter of time, not a matter of atrocities.
Imperialist Japan needed to be defeated for a greater good. I firmly believe that. That doesn’t make nuclear bombs a necessary evil, however. It’s just evil.
There is no evidence nuclear bombings were a major factor in the decision to finally surrender
Japanese high command openly discussed the nuclear bombings as a key point in whether to surrender, with the ultranationalist minister of defense suggesting that Japan shouldn’t surrender at the current junction because he was convinced that the Americans had only one bomb.
The idea that there’s no evidence that the nuclear bombings were a major factor in the decision of the Japanese government to surrender is absurd.
That’s the story the US keeps telling us ever since to explain away their own atrocities but it isn’t backed up by any data whatsoever. It’s pure vibes so we don’t think about how insanely inhumane nuclear weapons are. There is no evidence nuclear bombings were a major factor in the decision to finally surrender but it’s a fact they were already losing hard before the bombings. It was a matter of time, not a matter of atrocities.
Imperialist Japan needed to be defeated for a greater good. I firmly believe that. That doesn’t make nuclear bombs a necessary evil, however. It’s just evil.
Japanese high command openly discussed the nuclear bombings as a key point in whether to surrender, with the ultranationalist minister of defense suggesting that Japan shouldn’t surrender at the current junction because he was convinced that the Americans had only one bomb.
The idea that there’s no evidence that the nuclear bombings were a major factor in the decision of the Japanese government to surrender is absurd.