[laplata]

, Nagasaki was targetted to send a message to the Soviets, of what the U.S. was capable of.

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My Dad confirmed what you say.
Dad was a District Commander for the Occupation of Tokyo for a time in late 1945. He was there when Gen. MacArthur stood up to a high ranking Soviet general and told him to get out of Japan. The Soviets wanted their piece of the Japanese pie...and didn’t get it.

[roadcat]

My Dad confirmed what you say.

Nice. The Soviets wanted payback for the Japanese defeat of Russia decades earlier. Americans wanted to block the Soviets from a grab in Japan.

Perhaps our dads knew each other. My dad was also responsible for overseeing a large neighborhhod in Tokyo as part of the occupation forces. He had personal commendations from Gen. MacArthur. My dad passed away while I was a teen, so I didn't get a chance to ask him much about 1945 and what happened. I do have pictures of him having a limousine and a large fancy home in Tokyo after the war, presumably taken away from a Japanese official. He enjoyed that for a few years, as he was a poor kid from a Philly ghetto.

[calex59]

Nagasaki was targetted to send a message to the Soviets, of what the U.S. was capable of.

This is not true. Nagasaki was hit because the Japanese high command refused to surrender. They kept the emperor from surrendering until we hit Nagasaki. They wanted to keep fighting and make the Allies invade Japan. After Nagasaki they caved. Douglas MacArthur was who kept the Russians out of Japan. He refused to let them carve up Japan the way they did in Germany and other EU countries after the war.

FDR and Churchill caved and let the Russians not only have part of Germany but they got to keep Poland and other countries under the Soviet Union even though those countries were sovereign nations before the war. FDR, the biggest communist ever elected to President until Bozo came along.