Stephen Peter Rosen of Harvard believes that a submarine blockade would have been sufficient to force Japan to surrender.

Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, after reviewing Japanese sources, wrote the atomic bombings themselves were not the principal reason for Japan's capitulation. Instead, he contends, it was the Soviet entry in the war on 8 August, allowed by the Potsdam Declaration signed by the other Allies.

 

Japan had hoped to negotiate peace with the help of the Soviets. When they declared war on Japan it was clear to Japan that there was no hope of negotiating peace.

21 minutes ago, riclag said:

Toward the end of the Manhatten project the scientist signed a petition ,a letter to deter the use of it !

Truman wasn't getting all the scientific opinions, according to this article ,the opinions weren't being  shared 

 

"Szilard, adamant that the atomic bomb would have disastrous geopolitical consequences, crafted a petition arguing that atomic attacks on Japan "could not be justified, at least not until the terms which will be imposed after the war on Japan were made public in detail and Japan were given an opportunity to surrender." That demand was in fact more moderate than Szilard’s original proposition, which pleaded for the use of the bomb to be avoided at all costs".

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/leo-szilards-fight-stop-bomb#:~:text=He was instrumental in the,Lab from 1942 to 1946.

 

Indeed Szilard, who had gone on to play a major role in the Manhattan Project, argued:

 

Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?^[

25 minutes ago, Logosone said:

It's just as false to claim that the US was under some obligation to bomb women and children with conventional bombs in a country that had already sued for peace.

 

25 minutes ago, Logosone said:

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But then this cowardly way of bombarding civilians, women and children was pioneered by the British who had used it earlier and the bombing of the defenseless city of Dresden set a precedent for the blanket carpet bombing of women, childen and the elderly.

 

 

 

It's OFF Topic, but the misinformation cannot stand. The Nazis were the first to use indiscriminate bombing of a city in WW11 during the invasion of Poland at Warsaw.

Edited August 4, 20205 yr by simple1

11 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Completely false. Warsaw was purely a military operation.

What are you talking about?

Warsaw was purely a military operation, you clearly are trying to twist history to German thinking, not the truth.

https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders

 

Japan's surrender was not due to any one factor, but rather a combination of such. 

Edited August 4, 20205 yr by Bluespunk

There is too far much misinformation being posted in this topic

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