No American government would ever survive any sort of a scene involving a million war casualties and Truman knew that. Whatever plans might have been in the works prior to Okinawa had already been stopped BY Okinawa.
Again as I read it it was unnecessary. The Japanese were looking for some sort of a way to surrender and all Truman had to do was tell them that the war was over, and to call when they got hungry enough to want Americans to land and distribute food.
Again as I read it it was unnecessary.
It doesn't matter how you read it. You are factually incorrect, and not in a small or unimportant way. The Top Secret national archives were declassified in 2006.
So on May 25, 1945, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after extensive deliberation, issued to General MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and Army Air Force General Henry Arnold, the top secret directive to proceed with the invasion of Kyushu. The target date was after the typhoon season.
President Truman approved the plans for the invasions July 24. Two days later, the United Nations issued the Potsdam Proclamation, which called upon Japan to surrender unconditionally or face total destruction.
Three days later, the Japanese governmental news agency broadcast to the world that Japan would ignore the proclamation and would refuse to surrender. During this same period it was learned — via monitoring Japanese radio broadcasts — that Japan had closed all schools and mobilized its school children, was arming its civilian population and was fortifying caves and building underground defenses.