Let us also remember that after the first atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese did not immediately surrender is further proof of their irrationality at the time. Here you had the strongest industrial power in the world prove to you that they have a doomsday weapon
and the willingness to use it, and still they thought they could force us to terms by making the thought of American casualties in an invasion unacceptable.
Also remember that even after Nagasaki it took a tie-breaking vote by Hirohito to surrender. Yeah, there's lots about the war they want to forget.
NaW.
(And I like Japan, Germany and Italy so much better now than when they were totalitarian dictatorships...)
More selective memory from Japan. High school textbooks glaze over the Japanese Army's criminals acts in China and Korea.
The Japanese militarists knew the war was lost after the Battle of Midway but continued fighting anyway.
Let us also remember that after the first atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese did not immediately surrender is further proof of their irrationality at the time. Here you had the strongest industrial power in the world prove to you that they have a doomsday weapon and the willingness to use it, and still they thought they could force us to terms by making the thought of American casualties in an invasion unacceptable. Japan's top scientists also knew what we had developed. Germany, the US and Japan all had people familiar with the atomic theory. Japan decided nuclear would take too long to develop, and started working on biological weapons. When the first bomb was dropped, they knew exactly what we developed, but continued to hold out until the second bomb dropped. Many people inside the Japanese government at the time believe they still would not have surrendered if they had known that the second bomb was the last one we developed.