>A full scale ground assault would have cost hundreds of
>thousands of lives and Japan was particularly stubborn about
>not surrendering. Our only goal was to end the war as soon as
>possible and if the fire bombings (which were just as fucked
>up and took more lives) couldn't get them to fold then we had
>to pull out the trump card. Twice. And we still had to pretend
>we had a third one that we didn't even have just to get them
>to surrender.
>
>It was very fucked up tho, I'm aware.

man... Japan had been offering to surrender (1 condition....emperor stays)

USA rejected it...said no conditions

You know the week we dropped the bombs the USSR was supposed to enter the war in Asia?

hiroshima was a "virgin city". not one bomb had been dropped there previously so they could see EXACTLY what it did.

it was an experiment. no reason was ever given for the 2nd bomb. it was made differently (experiment) and oh yeah...the USSR was to begin fighting in Japan the next day

the bombings are actually the first act of the COLD WAR. the US was making sure Japan surrendered to Us and WE would be the post war occupier

and btw...the emperor was allowed to stay