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From: csanders@ucbvax.ARPA (Craig S. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Bomb
Message-ID: <9957@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 02:52:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 17 02:52:34 1985
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Reply-To: csanders@ucbvax.UUCP (Craig S. Anderson)
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In article <3697@decwrl.UUCP>  writes:
>The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nothing to do with the Japanese.
>The Japanese were ready to surrender almost unconditionally.  They only
>asked to be able to retain their emperor. We said no we wanted complete
>surrender...

The Japanese were NOT ready to surrender at all.  One faction in the
Japanese War Cabinet did want surrender, but the military leaders overruled
them.  Even after the bombs were dropped, it took the emperor's intervention
to overrule Tojo and his faction.  The 'uncoditional surrender' was by
mutual agreement of the Allies at Potsdam and Yalta.  Stalin wanted
assurances that Great Britain and the US would not conclude a separate
peace with Hitler, so all three agreed that all Axis nations must
surrender unconditionally.
>
>   I though do not feel the real question is wether we should have dropped
>the bomb or not.  The question is how do we prevent it from every happening 
>agian. MAny may say it can't but we have come close before.  A few examples
>
>         MacArthur in Korea wanted to drop them on China.

MacArthur got fired for this by Truman (same guy who ordered H and N)



>
>                           Brian Mahoney


Craig Anderson
csanders@ucbvax.Berkely.EDU (ARPA)