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Nazi military incompetence is all that saved them from canned sunshine (lemmy.world)
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[–] libra00@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not my argument, read the article (emphasis added):

Many historians say the bombings did not lead to the Japanese surrender, and the Soviet declaration of war on Japan two days later was a bigger shock.

But yeah I know Truman green-lit the use of the bombs as a means to intimidate the USSR, but there's an awful lot of backsplanation that went on after the bombings to justify their use as vital to saving American lives by pushing Japan to surrender, when the US government knew from intercepted diplomatic communiques and such that Japan had been feeling out options for surrender prior to that.

Also it didn't really work on the Russians either, since they had their own nuclear program that had its first test in 1949.