Reply #18: Nice theory, but [View All]

[Art_from_Ark]

Did you know that the USSR declared war on Japan only after the first nuke had been dropped?

That the Russian invasion of Japanese territory lasted well into October 1945, until they had taken everything that had been promised to them by Roosevelt at Yalta, and reaffirmed at Potsdam?

That the new government of Prime Minister Suzuki, who took office in April 1945, had made overtures to the United States through the Soviet government to end the war in the Pacific after Berlin fell, but the Soviets didn't act on it because they were eying the territory they were going to get from Japan?

That no less a man than Dwight Eisenhower stated that the nuclear bombing was unnecessary?