[moonshot925]

Here is what General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold wrote in his memoirs in 1949.

"It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse."

[DuncanWaring]

"It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse."

They may have been on the verge of collapse - doesn't mean they were on the verge of surrender.