Nuke their ass, take their gas...

[Dave Williams]

-> 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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