• ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    What’s the obsession with the atoms bombs anyway

    It was a terror weapon that wasn’t necessarily needed (especially with the Soviets crashing into Manchuria and the Chinese pushing IJA forces out at the same time); an invasion of the Home Islands would probably not have been as bloody as the US claimed it would be with Japan really fighting a two-front war by Aug 1945 (also, were the Japanese really going to fight to the last civilian?)

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      they were literally already ready to surrender. they only asked for one condition, which they were granted after the bombs were dropped anyway – that the emperor would be allowed to live.