The Strategic use of the bombs in Japan wasn’t about Japan. I mean that helped and frankly your argument’s rather unconvincing that it wasn’t effective. But that still wasn’t the goal. The goal of using the bombs on Japan was to scare the Russians. That’s why they used them.
It’s not my argument, read the article (emphasis added):
Many historians say the bombings did not lead to the Japanese surrender, and the Soviet declaration of war on Japan two days later was a bigger shock.
But yeah I know Truman green-lit the use of the bombs as a means to intimidate the USSR, but there’s an awful lot of backsplanation that went on after the bombings to justify their use as vital to saving American lives by pushing Japan to surrender, when the US government knew from intercepted diplomatic communiques and such that Japan had been feeling out options for surrender prior to that.
Also it didn’t really work on the Russians either, since they had their own nuclear program that had its first test in 1949.
The Strategic use of the bombs in Japan wasn’t about Japan. I mean that helped and frankly your argument’s rather unconvincing that it wasn’t effective. But that still wasn’t the goal. The goal of using the bombs on Japan was to scare the Russians. That’s why they used them.
It’s not my argument, read the article (emphasis added):
But yeah I know Truman green-lit the use of the bombs as a means to intimidate the USSR, but there’s an awful lot of backsplanation that went on after the bombings to justify their use as vital to saving American lives by pushing Japan to surrender, when the US government knew from intercepted diplomatic communiques and such that Japan had been feeling out options for surrender prior to that.
Also it didn’t really work on the Russians either, since they had their own nuclear program that had its first test in 1949.