Comments by "115islands Compass" (@115islandscompass6) on "Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Were Nuclear Weapons Required to End the War?" video.

  1. It is a lie to have dropped the atomic bomb to end the war early. The purposes of dropping the atomic bomb in Japan: 1. Experiments on how the atomic bomb destroys and kills living cities and people 2. Experiments on contamination by radioactivity and its effects on the human body 3. Demonstration to the Soviet Union Japan had already informed the United States that it was willing to surrender in May 1945. The only condition for Japan to surrender was to maintain the emperor system. This was because the existence of the emperor was indispensable for the leaders who govern the Japanese people while preventing Japan from becoming a communist country. However, the United States even refused to discuss the issue. MacArthur, who had professed that "I will hang the emperor”, noticed the Importance of emperor’s existence after coming to Japan and decided to keep the emperor alive. The draft of the Potsdam Declaration was supervised by Joseph Grew, a former ambassador to Japan. The draft contained a sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system. Because Grew knew well why Japan wanted the continuation of the Emperor System, and knew that Japan would surrender as soon as the Potsdam Declaration allowed the continuation of the Emperor System. However, when Truman announced the Potsdam Declaration, the sentence that allowed the continuation of the emperor system had removed from the declaration. Why did Truman prevent Japan from accepting the Potsdam Declaration immediately? No atomic bomb was needed to end the war. In fact, it was the Soviet aggression that made Japan decide to surrender unconditionally. The text below is an excerpt from: It’s Time to Confront Painful Truths About Using the Atomic Bombs on Japan | Debate Club | US News “As the National Museum of the U.S. Navy makes clear, the atomic bombs had little to do with the end of the war. The museum's display on the bombings unambiguously states that the atomic bombings "made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.“”
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