U-CDK_CHARLES\Charles wrote:

It was believed that dropping "The Bomb" would end the war more quickly
with fewer losses--but it relied on Japan believing we had enough of
them to do the job, which we didn't.

Do you suppose it might have had anything to do with sending
a message to
the Soviet Union?

It of course did have something to do with the Japanese
surrender. The terms that were close to being worked out
when it was dropped weren't unconditional. The bomb's
intent with respect to the Japanese was to remove any basis
for our needing to accept any conditions whatsoever so that
we could rebuild the country entirely the way _we_ wanted it
allowing as little traditional culture to remain as we saw
fit. That wasn't much.


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein