Some book I read in the past convinced me that it was a huge military loss in Manchuria that led to the Jap surrender more so than the bombs...or a combination, certainly.
There was. The Soviets effected the most their most flawlessly choreographed attack of the war against the Japs in Manchuria just days before the Nagasaki Bomb.
***Some book I read in the past convinced me that it was a huge military loss in Manchuria that led to the Jap surrender more so than the bombs****
Years ago I was listening to Vladimer Posner on Radio Moscow. The said the reason the Japanese surrendered was that after the explosion of the first two bombs, the Russians entered the war against Japan, and THAT is what made them surrender.