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Tue Oct-09-07 02:26 PM
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| 221. The Eisenhower quotation you refer to |
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came from after the bomb was dropped. He was saying that it turned out there was no need to drop it, not that he believed there was no reason to drop it beforehand.
The Japanese wanted a conditional peace. That was unacceptable.
The only advisors who lobbied against the bomb being dropped did so specifically and emphatically because they believed that it would not be sufficient to bring about a Japanese surrender, and that only an invasion would end the war. There is no evidence anyone believed that there was going to be an unconditional surrender without either an invasion or a nuclear attack.
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