>Before and after Hiroshima.

Again, Japan was already beaten badly. The Japanese's main army was in China, with Chinese and Russian forces moving on them, their navy was destroyed and Axis allies defeatd. The U.S. knew the Japanese defeat was inevitable and so did the Japanese. They would surrender if their emperor was guarenteed safety. But like you said, it had to be "unconditional surrender"......whatever. Truman knew the Japanese would fight to the end to protect their Emperor. After test #1 on Hiroshima, Truman again asked for "unconditional surrender" within 3 days, knowing that there would be no way for the Japanese government, based hundreds of miles away in Tokyo, to even know the extent of damage caused by this new bomb in the course of 3 days.

They didn't surrender until
>Hirohito thought the next one after Nagasaki would hit
>Tokyo.

They surrendered when he found out the extent of the damage. And you know what, after the unconditional surrender, Hirohito and his family were granted the complete immunity that they were asking for prior to Hiroshima.

I'll say this, military reasons, desire for atomic diplomacy (妬mpressing�the Soviets), racism, the need for a number of scientists to validate their work, fear of Congressional investigation for a two billion dollar expenditure, and the immeasurable momentum of the Manhattan Project itself, propelled the administration to use the bomb. If you think that this was purely about some noble effort to "save lives" and "end the war", you have not looked into the history of this AT ALL, and have only chosen to believe your highschool textbook. Just a tiny look into the archives will show you that politics weighed heavily in the decision as did racism.

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