I’d like the revisionist historians (obviously you are NOT one) to explain to me this: If the Japs were on the verge of surrendering unconditionally before Truman dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, then why did it take them until August 14, 1945— five days AFTER THE SECOND BOMB WAS DROPPED on Nagasaki— to surrender? I hate these anti-American revisionist historians./rwa
Watched an interesting episode on the History Channel a few years back when it still produced history shows unlike today's wall-2-wall pawnbrokers. The episode dealt with the events in Japan and the USAAF XX Bomber Command between the nuking of Hiroshima and the surrender of Japan - which was not unconditional - the emperor was not charged with war crimes but he was clearly guilty of them. Gen. Curtis LeMay continued ordering incendiary bombing strikes of Japanese cities after the nuking of Nagasaki. It was during this period that a small group of Japanese army mid-level officers attempted a coup against the emperor because they learned that he was about to surrender. They failed and committed suicide.
The Japanese detested communism and the U.S.S.R. Uncle Joe had just invaded Manchuria and was rolling over Japanese forces there - many who were captured disappeared in the Soviet Gulag system in Siberia. And the Soviets had just seized most of the Kuril Islands north of Hokkaido Island. It seems the Japanese high command chose to dance with Uncle Sam instead of Uncle Joe.