Looks like the unanimous opinion on this forum is this article is FOS. I have read a dozen books on the subject and this article is the first time I have ever seen anyone suggest that Japan was ready to "surrender" before Hiroshima. We had reduced Tokyo to a smoldering ruin and they were still hell bent on defending their Island to the last man woman and child.
I think you are the one that needs to be educated.
How long did it take you to read this nonsense? I had this guy pegged after the second paragraph. "Here was an enemy who had been trying to surrender for almost a year before the conflict ended."
LOL!
What follows that has got to be nothing but Liberal BS.
I notice the whiny lefty revisionist left the scene as soon as knowledgable people began responding to this piece of crap of an article he posted.