captain carot on 11 August 2015
Japan tried to get peace negotiations months before Hiroshima.
They just tried it via the Soviets because USSR and Japan had an agreement not to attack each other. And Japan wanted no unconditional surrender. So there's that.
The USSR declared war on Japan right around the time of the bombings and attacked Japans chinese puppet state Manchukuo.
At this point Japan would have surrendered in any way.
The US wanted to keep the soviets out of the surrender, they wanted to demonstrate their new power...
Ever wondered how it actually came to the Korean War?
Wikipedia:
Korea was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the closing days of World War II. In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and—by agreement with the United States—occupied Korea north of the 38th parallel. U.S. forces subsequently occupied the south and Japan surrendered. By 1948, two separate governments had been set up. Both governments claimed to be the legitimate government of Korea, and neither side accepted the border as permanent. The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces—supported by the Soviet Union and China—invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.
Basically another situation like in Germany. And something, the US did not want to happen in Japan as well.
That thing with a major invasion of the japanese mainland would have been a reason if Japan hadn't already tried to get peace negotiations.
