Comment Re:You watch too much TV (Score 1) 1392
No, we dropped two nukes for the explict purpose of defeating Japan. Even after the first they did not surrender. Hence the second.
Just to be clear, Japan didn't know what hit them and the US didn't exactly give enough time to for Japan to reassess the situation. Given the level of devastation, there was nobody left in Hiroshima to report to "higher command" about the destruction. Japan didn't have all the information to call a cease-fire let alone surrender, so the U.S. decided to drop another just 3 days later. At the time, with remote-communication fascilities most likely down, it would have taken at least that many days to get down and back from HQ (Tokyo) to give a damage assessment. Just look at the tsunami situation. It took days before people began to realize the level of carnage. And this is 50 years later!
Here's for hoping it'll never happen again. Which unfortunately even this many years later, is not a guarantee
Just to be clear, Japan didn't know what hit them and the US didn't exactly give enough time to for Japan to reassess the situation. Given the level of devastation, there was nobody left in Hiroshima to report to "higher command" about the destruction. Japan didn't have all the information to call a cease-fire let alone surrender, so the U.S. decided to drop another just 3 days later. At the time, with remote-communication fascilities most likely down, it would have taken at least that many days to get down and back from HQ (Tokyo) to give a damage assessment. Just look at the tsunami situation. It took days before people began to realize the level of carnage. And this is 50 years later!
Here's for hoping it'll never happen again. Which unfortunately even this many years later, is not a guarantee
