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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
Or a second nuke.
Potsdam Declaration:
26 July 1945
Hiroshima:
03 August 1945 (Eight days later)
Nagasaki:
06 August 1945
Japanese surrender:
02 September 1945
By the way, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese sub, and sank on July 30, 1945. Hundreds of lives were lost, including many who were eaten by sharks, while their buddies floated nearby, powerless to assist.
Exactly how much longer would you have preferred that our soldiers keep dying, when we had the means to prevent it?
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I'm being a little offbeat by quoting myself, but I should clarify that I pulled the Japanese surrender date off the document itself. V-J Day is tomorrow.
Also, here's a little gem I dug up. I'm not going to the trouble of posting a link unless the volume of discussion in this thread increases, and someone claims it's not true.
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The primary reason we should have used the atomic bomb is that the Japanese were working on their own atomic bomb, and they were receiving aid from the Germans to achieve this goal.
This is well-documented in the historical archives by the final voyage of the U-234, which was transporting enriched uranium to Japan, along with the weapons technology to deliver it. The U-234 was captured off the New England coast after the Germans had capitulated to the Allies. With the German collapse, all submarines had then been ordered by Grossadmiral Karl Doenitz to surface and surrender. Two Japanese envoys on board promptly committed suicide and took their side of the story to the grave with them. The uranium on board the submarine was recovered from the forward hatches of the U-234 and used in our own atomic bombs.
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Doesn't sound much like they were in the mood to surrender. Especially when Hirohito had to override his generals in order to do so.