More attempts by the left at revisionist history.
In early 1947, when urged to respond to growing criticism over the use of the atomic bomb, Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote in Harper’s Magazine that by July 1945 there had been no sign of “any weakening in the Japanese determination to fight rather than accept unconditional surrender.” Meanwhile, the U.S. was planning to ramp up its sea and air blockade of Japan, increase strategic air bombings and launch an invasion of the Japanese home island that November.
“We estimated that if we should be forced to carry this plan to its conclusion, the major fighting would not end until the latter part of 1946, at the earliest,” Stimson wrote. “I was informed that such operations might be expected to cost over a million casualties, to American forces alone.”
More attempts by the left at revisionist histor
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My take also.
I don’t beleive a single quote.
I’ve read a lot of ww2 generals autobiographies
True... we hear it every August. AS IF Japan was innocently drawn into WWII.
They WERE given some very explicit an direct notifications about the bombings ...days ahead.
They chose to take their chances.