[Duke]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]

Japan tried to surrender both before the first bomb and before the second, America ignored them because they needed to test their new weaponery.


[/ QUOTE ]

Do you have a source for this ridiculous statement? I'm pretty sure the US made it clear from the getgo that only unconditional surrender would be accepted and the feelers the Japanese sent out prior to/after Hiroshima had conditions that were unacceptable.

[/ QUOTE ]

Just what I recall from taking high school history, I think the first surrender didn't meet America's demands but the one after Hiroshima was unconditional and American still dropped the second bomb. I'll check wikipedia.

[/ QUOTE ]

Well at least you'll get straightened out now. I'm guessing that your high school history teacher had some agendas and/or political affiliations that would induce them to make up some stuff.

Though I guess a kid might have a tough time seeing that a conditional surrender negotiation is virtually always a ploy to buy time and strike harder. It's a tactic, not a peace making gesture. Japan wasn't a happy go lucky empire at that point in history.

I actually wonder if things would have changed if they told them exactly what they were going to do (maybe in the leaflets dropped pre-Hiroshima). I doubt they'd have believed the claims any more than the threats that were given.

~D