[Vigilanteman]

I used to work for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. I've been to both the factory in Hiroshima and the shipyards in Nagasaki. The shipyards at Nagasaki built most of the fleet which attacked Pearl Harbor and were the primary target. But as luck would have it, they were shrouded in fog and the other side of the bay, which contained the secondary target, the Mitsubishi Steel Works, was clear.

The Nagasaki bomb was, sadly, unnecessary. The Japanese had passed their intentions to capitulate through their supposedly neutral intermediary, the Soviet Union. The Russians sat on this information long enough to declare war on Japan and help themselves to some major spoils.

[Kirkwood]

“The Japanese had passed their intentions to capitulate through their supposedly neutral intermediary, the Soviet Union. The Russians sat on this information long enough to declare war on Japan and help themselves to some major spoils.”

Something is wrong with this timeline. The Russians were at war with Japan at that time and were not neutral. It would make no sense for the Japanese to consider Russia as a neutral country between the dates of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, because Russia was already in combat with the Japanese army on the mainland. The overtures by Japan for ending the war were made through neutral countries like Sweden and Portugal, but were rejected by the US because there were always conditional terms attached. The US had made it very clear to all parties that only an unconditional surrender was acceptable.