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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 2202691" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_weber.html" target="_blank">Was Hiroshima Necessary?</a></p><p></p><p>It's a long read, but here it is.</p><p></p><p>(And the answer is, no, the atomic bombs didn't cause Japan to surrender).</p><p></p><p>..."<em>The fact is that as far as the Japanese militarists were concerned, the atomic bomb was just another weapon. The two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were icing on the cake, and did not do as much damage as the firebombings of Japanese cities. The B-29 firebombing campaign had brought the destruction of 3,100,000 homes, leaving 15 million people homeless, and killing about a million of them. It was the ruthless firebombing, and Hirohito's realization that if necessary the Allies would completely destroy Japan and kill every Japanese to achieve "unconditional surrender" that persuaded him to the decision to end the war. The atomic bomb is indeed a fearsome weapon, but it was not the cause of Japan's surrender, even though the myth persists even to this day.</em>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 2202691, member: 18225"] [URL='http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_weber.html']Was Hiroshima Necessary?[/URL] It's a long read, but here it is. (And the answer is, no, the atomic bombs didn't cause Japan to surrender). ..."[I]The fact is that as far as the Japanese militarists were concerned, the atomic bomb was just another weapon. The two atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were icing on the cake, and did not do as much damage as the firebombings of Japanese cities. The B-29 firebombing campaign had brought the destruction of 3,100,000 homes, leaving 15 million people homeless, and killing about a million of them. It was the ruthless firebombing, and Hirohito's realization that if necessary the Allies would completely destroy Japan and kill every Japanese to achieve "unconditional surrender" that persuaded him to the decision to end the war. The atomic bomb is indeed a fearsome weapon, but it was not the cause of Japan's surrender, even though the myth persists even to this day.[/I]" [/QUOTE]
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