Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Japanese Military Message-ID: <2735@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:06:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2735 Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:06:51 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 05:42:49 EDT References: <1736@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 15 > This is related to why the US bombed Nagasaki. By the end of the war, > relations between the US and the USSR had deteriorated to cold war levels, > but the USSR was scheduled to join the war against Japan soon. We wanted the > war over before the Soviets had a chance to attack through China (once they > went somewhere, they tended not to leave). There were several alternatives > to using the A-bomb (such as invasion, fire-bombing, etc.), but none of them > would have ended the war quick enough to avoid the Soviet Union's invasion > of China. I seem to remember that one reason the US make so many concessions to the USSR in Europe was that they wanted them to join in against Japan. (Now, if we knew that the bomb would end things quickly, why did we think this was so important?) Wayne