• Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Who told you Japan was planning to continue the war after Hiroshima?

    They were planning to concede after the first bomb. The president didn’t even learn of Nagasaki until it was in the news.

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      7 months ago

      There’s a lot more to it than that. Just for starters, there was a short lived coup in the military to try to keep it going. Tons going on in those last few days of the war on the Japanese side, and even if you had perfect knowledge of everything, it wasn’t obvious that they would surrender.

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        7 months ago

        I could never claim to summarise even five minutes of WWII with a couple of sentences, but my point is that it’s hardly fair to characterise Japan as “ain’t heard no bell”