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Originally posted by Zeld2.0
TBH either way you cut it the bombs would've been dropped be it legitimate or not in your eyes.
Harry S. Truman had a tough decision to make, but the final choice was simple for him: do it or face impeachment.
I don't remember the exact quote but it something like "Mr. President, what will you tell Congress a year from now that you had a way of ending the war and didn't use it."
As for Japan - in the end the Emperor had the ultimate call. Despite arguments on both sides, its the Emperor's final choice.
IMO a war council vote means shit because if the Emperor said "game over" they listened - on the flipside the bombs defenitely influenced his final choice (as did an attempted coup by hard-liners).
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Attempted coup came AFTER he decided to surrender and played no part in the decision.
You know why, despite there being plenty of evidence that Hirohito was a war criminal we let him off the hook and portrayed him as a figure head? Because we really did NOT want to invade and had we not agreed to this one condition that Hirohito be allowed to stay Emperor in name (if not as a god) they would not have surrendered.