[skeeter]

Beginning in September 1944, the Japanese government began quietly searching for a way to peace beginning with an approach to the Swedish Minister in Tokyo to sound out the Allies on terms of peace. Both this and another overture in March 1945 came to nought.

The civilian government was searching for a way out. And there was a reason why they were doing it quietly - the Imperial Japanese army, which actually held the reigns of power (the navy, having lost all its assets, had ceased being a player in the struggle for internal control), would have assassinated any civilian figure who openly advocated reaching an accord with the allies.

Ironically, the bomb provided a reason for the civilians to sue for peace. Without it the army would never have surrendered. It could be said the bomb saved Japan.

Read John Tolands Rising Sun in the Pacific for an idea of how difficult it was for the civilians to get the surrender notice out, even IN SPITE of the two bombs having been dropped.

[rightwing2]

John Toland also wrote a couple of really good books, At Dawn We Slept and Infamy which detail how liberal Democrap President FDR first goaded Japan into attacking us, then withheld vital intelligence from Pearl which would have provided them with plenty of notice to help fight off the Japanese attack and save the lives of untold hundreds. FDR deliberately sacrificed the lives of 2,000 brave US sailors to get the US in the war against Germany on the side of the Brits. He was a disgraceful President, but this is the conniving, morally unscrupulous behavior that we have expected little better from liberal Democrap philandering Presidents.