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The New DU. Reply #9: Howard Zinn says NO
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Sushi_lover
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Thu Aug-14-03 06:46 AM
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The not-so-impartial historian :)
provided reputable references indicating the Japanese wanted to negotiate a surrender before the 1st bomb. The Japanese initiated discussion but the U.S. ignored those communiques.
There was a faction of Pentagon and military strategists who wanted to use the bomb as a demonstration of power to the Russians.
That faction influenced the huge estimate of expected U.S. troop losses on "island to island" fighting if the bomb was not dropped.
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we all choose what we want to believe. I have not found disproof of ANY of Howard Zinn's factual material.
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