Some tweets to save for today’s pending discussions with people who never studied WWII and the Pacific War. A thread.

Japan was not ready to surrender at the time of the Hiroshima Bombing.

They responded to the Potsdam Declaration with the term “Mokusatsu” on July 28th, 1945.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu 

Japan’s Holocaust of Asia killed more people than the Nazi Holocaust. https://www.google.com/amp/s/medium.com/amp/p/877f0a7c664

Japan was not going to surrender from a blockade. They had blockaded themselves for 200 years and were perfectly happy. They’d have happily locked themselves in until the blockade ended and then invaded a neighboring country again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku 

Why the second bomb?
And did the Soviets cause the surrender?


https://twitter.com/gomesbolt/status/1291312849625784321?s=21 https://twitter.com/gomesbolt/status/1291312849625784321

Nagasaki had nothing to do with the Soviet invasion.

Soviet invasion may have explained why Japan surrendered to the US though. Because nobody wanted to surrender to the Soviets. They knew what happened to people who did.