Re: The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Did

[Dave Monroe]

"In the three weeks prior to Hiroshima, 26 cities were attacked by the
U.S. Army Air Force. Of these, eight — or almost a third — were as
completely or more completely destroyed than Hiroshima (in terms of
the percentage of the city destroyed). The fact that Japan had 68
cities destroyed in the summer of 1945 poses a serious challenge for
people who want to make the bombing of Hiroshima the cause of Japan’s
surrender. The question is: If they surrendered because a city was
destroyed, why didn’t they surrender when those other 66 cities were
destroyed?

"If Japan’s leaders were going to surrender because of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, you would expect to find that they cared about the bombing
of cities in general, that the city attacks put pressure on them to
surrender. But this doesn’t appear to be so...."

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On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie?
>
> http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
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