Nuke their ass, take their gas...

[Bruce]

Whatever,
  it took a second nuke for them to surrender.
Notes and $hit done behind closed doors is all open to speculation.
They could have yelled loud enough after one to stop the second one. THEY
CHOISE not to.  Well, second one was a charm.
After the pain and suffering they caused, I wouldn't have accepted any then
less then an unconditional surrender.  How many GIs died in the PT?.
They got off cheap in my book
Bruce


From: "Dave Williams" <dave.williams at chaos.lrk.ar.us>
Subject: Re: Nuke their ass, take their gas...
> -> As horrible as it is ,the ONLY thing that brought Imperial Japan to
> -> it's knees
> -> was the Pay Load of the Enola Gay.
>  Not true.  The Japanese had been trying to open diplomatic channels to
> negotiate an armistice or surrender well before the Potsdam conference.
> Messages got passed to Truman via the OSS and State Department, but he
> chose to get some return for all the money that went down the Manhattan
> rabbit hole first, and then negotiate for unconditional surrender
> instead of an armistice.
>  This is ordinary history; try Winston Churchill's "Closing The Ring",
> Calvocoressi's "Total War", or Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
> for more details.


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