“Remember, Japan surrendered because Russia invaded and sliced through their mainland army, NOT because of dropping nuclear bombs. “
Liberal Revisionist History. Lots of nonsense.
What’s next from you, member of the Flat-Earth Society?? Why didn’t go to the moon??
Look when Japan met to decide to surrender. It was a couple days after the first bomb, but before they had time to react to the second bomb. We had already bombed almost every Japanese city to rubble by conventional bombing.
When the council met to surrender, it was right after Russia had invaded Japanese mainland territory, and demolished them. The Japanese and Russia were already enemies, with their last skirmish being in 1939. They wanted to surrender to the U.S., not deal with the Russians.
And by the way, the reason the Soviets picked that day, is it was basically the end of the period Russia was OBLIGATED to declare war with the Japanese by their agreement with the Allies.
Truman told Stalin about the existence of nuclear weapons in July. But Stalin already knew about them before Truman did. FDR kept that information from Truman, and Truman wasn't brief until a couple weeks after FDR died.