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

[Dave Monroe]

http://bit.ly/1aOFoUx

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Japanese_War_(1945)
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "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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