Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!lkk From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Japan and the Bomb Message-ID: <2817@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 13:21:57 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2817 Posted: Wed Oct 3 13:21:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 08:50:04 EDT Distribution: net.politics Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 14 Re: Using the Bomb to force Japan to surrender. I read a few years back that US intelligence had reports that the Japanese cabinet was fairly evenly split over the question of surrender, and that given a few more days, they might very well have done so, without using the bomb. Can anyone confirm or deny this? -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk ARPA: lkk@mit-mc