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by wickedwillie on August 11th, 2004

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Why was Japan bombed with two atom bombs? Wasn't one enough?

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  • by Ben Conover on March 27th, 2005

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    This is a response to the answers given by Thom64 and MP116.

    Thom64 says "While it is possible, perhaps extremely likely, that the surrender was imminent after the first bomb, and all intelligence and documents may support that, it remains a possibility that the order would not have been followed,, or that they may have changed their minds.

    It was NOT "extremely likely" that surrender was imminent after the first bomb. It wasn't even thought of, except perhaps by civilians in the government who had absolutely no say about any governement policy, let alone any military policy. The military WAS the government, and the military had no intentions of surrendering, and furthermore all evidence pointed towards the exact opposite. The fact that over 10,000 Japanese civilians on the isalnd of saipan chose to commit suicide rather then surrender proves that the Japanese had no intention of surrendering, but instead were quite willing and ready to fight and die, right down to the very last Japanese baby.

    MP116 said, "Everything about the Japanese nation at the time of WWII was divided... most notably, the government. The governmental leaders decided upon surrender...the military leaders who were in actuality holding total control over Japan at this point, were the ones who did not plan on surrendering, hence why the poor communication to the Japanese military led to continued fighting."

    All of that is completely and utterly incorrect.

    As I previously stated, the military WAS the government. Civilians had NO say whatsoever about any governmental policies. NONE. And when some civilians did manage to get a mesage to the United States offering terms for asurrender, it was rightly rejected out of hand, as the US was going to settle for nothing less then complete and unconditional surrender.

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    • When I wrote, all previous answers took the "unneeded" position. I tried to balance them with "can't be sure."

      Thom64

      by Thom64 on May 1st, 2005

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