>It may not make a difference
>to you but it did to high-
>ranking officials at the time.
>In a June 18, 1945 meeting with
>Truman and his military advisors,
>Assistant Secretary of War John
>McCloy argued that Japan should be
>permitted to retain the Emperor and
>should be given a warning of the at-
>omic bomb in order to bring an earlier
>and less deadly surrender (Walter Millis,
>ed., The Forrestal Diaries, pg. 70-71;
>Len Giovannitti and Fred Freed, The Dec-
>ision To Drop the Bomb, pg. 134-136).

And if they had, they would have let them know what was in the cards. If that bomb had been a dud or been dropped in the wrong spot (as it was in Nagasaki) it could have been seen as a bluff.

>Besides, after all was said and done, the
>U.S. allowed the fake god to remain in
>power. Thus, your arguement that the bomb
>was necessary falls short of it's mark.

Only as a figurehead, not as a soverign leader. He had to answer to the Allied Supreme Commander.
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