There is the possibility that Japan tried to surrender before we dropped the atomic bomb on them. If this is true it is important to our history and how we view those who we trust to lead us. It matters in how we view our history. Because it is who we are and where we come from and what we are made of.
I do not know the whole truth and will not pretend to, however I would like to know as much as I can about the truth. When I find information I do not do it in the hopes that I will win an argument and enhance my ego. I want to know the truth just for the sake of truth and knowledge. I want to know things as they are.
We can only do this based on what information that we have available to us and from there we must make our best guess based on all that we know. There is so much information that is kept from us, it makes it like trying to search for the truth with a blindfold on. But if we can find crumbs perhaps we can find the answers that are the closest to the truth.
I will include the links that I and others have found so that you can sift through the information and based on what you learn and research make your own conclusion as to what history and truth that you would like to believe.
https://www.quora.com/Did-Japan-real...d-on-Hiroshima
https://www.thenation.com/article/wh...bed-hiroshima/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-ef1b6cb6530d/
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...nap-story.html
http://time.com/4346336/atomic-bombs-1945-history/
http://www.atomicheritage.org/key-do...rning-leaflets
An audio link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03978m6
Here is a Wikipedia link with a comment by Fleet Admiral William D Leahy[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Leahy
"Once it had been tested, President Truman faced the decision as to whether to use it. He did not like the idea, but he was persuaded that it would shorten the war against Japan and save American lives. It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make wars in that fashion, and that wars cannot be won by destroying women and children."
7/18/45 Diary Entry:"P.M. [Prime Minister Winston Churchill] & I ate alone. Discussed Manhattan [atomic bomb] (it is a success). Decided to tell Stalin about it. Stalin had told P.M. of telegram from Jap Emperor asking for peace. Stalin also read his answer to me. It was satisfactory. Believe Japs will fold up before Russia comes in. I am sure they will when Manhattan appears over their homeland. I shall inform Stalin about it at an opportune time." [The closest Truman came to doing that was on 7/24/45 when "I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force." (Harry Truman, "Memoirs, 1945", pg. 416). No mention was made by Truman that the weapon was an atomic bomb.]http://www.doug-long.com/hst.htm
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