bstulic posted:
I really don't get it...why they surrendered after two bombs?
The answer the U.S. received from the Japanese command about the nuking of Hiroshima was silence. (1st bomb)
Why? a rational person asks. Why, after the devastation wreaked on the city and its inhabitants, didn't the Japanese concede that the atomic bomb was the game changer?
The Japanese command was not comprised of a bunch of nuts. These were sane and smart war planners.
For all the crazy rhetoric of Japanese propaganda they knew the truth as much as the U.S. command did.
The Pacific theater of war wasn't the European one. They'd forced the us into taking unacceptably high losses for the victories on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and now the United States was fast running out of young men to send into the kind of battles the we had seen only twice in Europe against the Nazis.
The Japanese planners were reasonably assured they could fight the United States to a standoff in the Pacific. Then along came the bombing of Hiroshima. It was completely off the grid, although the we had warned that we had developed a superweapon and were willing to use it.
Yet the silence in the wake of the Hiroshima bombing suggests the Japanese command thought the U.S. side was bluffing. That they'd shot their full load of the new weapon.
If that's how the Japanese were thinking, three days later they learned they were wrong.
Perhaps, when a third A-bomb didn't fall, Japan's war planners again put themselves in the place of their U.S. counterparts and gauged what the Americans would do if they had more than two nuclear weapons.
They would save the rest for Kyushu and Honshu to use as a clearing operation for the U.S. assault.
In that event it really would be game over, and the Japanese would have nothing to show for it except the very inglorious spectacle of being roasted alive.
If that's indeed how they thought, they guessed right that time. The U.S. had at least seven more A-bombs, which were intended to clear the way for Operation Downfall.
In any event, after Nagasaki the Japanese knew it was open to question as to how many A-bombs the U.S. had in its arsenal. Five days later the Japanese surrendered unconditionally.
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