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Originally Posted by Radar
60 years ago, America TOLD Japan we had the bomb and begged them for 5 days to surrender or we'd use it.
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What you didn't mention is that Japan offered the U.S. peace terms in July 1945 on almost exactly the same terms that eventually were accepted. The hold-up? They wanted an assurance that we weren't going to hang their Emperor.
We didn't end up hanging him anyway, of course, but in order to prove the point that we could if we wanted (i.e., "
unconditional surrender"), we killed an extra 120,000 people.
Don't take my word for any of this...look it up yourself.