Which is?
I used to have a copy of a book titled ‘Day of Deceit’ which pretty much laid out the screw ups that were made. There is a quick summary at amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201299/interesting-20
Believable? I think so, but does anyone other than those involved know the “truth”? And even then it was probably compartmentalized.
Truth was, the Japanese STARTED something and unleashed
literal HELL on themselves in the form of the most terrible
weapons at Hiroshima & Nagasaki ever seen in any warfare.
They had awakened a sleeping giant, indeed. TRUMAN, unlike
the Democrats of today, had the GUTS to use what he had at
his disposal & when he made the decision, did not look back
& had a good night’s sleep to boot. THOUSANDS more American
lives would have been lost if they’d had to invade Japan.
FANG’S cousin was on a ship on his way to Japan to invade.
They were told flatly that out of three of them, only one
would survive. My dad would have had to go eventually as
a battle hardened veteran. Even the Japanese civilians were
ordered to KILL AMERICANS with any weapon they had. There
are people who are geared to either be at your feet or at
your throat. I don’t want either option. JAPAN GOT WHAT
THEY ASKED FOR. I would likely not be here if Truman (D)
hadn’t had GUTS as I wasn’t born until 1946.