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[QUOTE]Originally posted by IDIC: [QB] [QUOTE]As I understand it, the second bomb was dropped because of a mistranslation, either accidental or deliberate. After the 1st bomb was dropped, the Tojo government sent a response that they would consider a the US surrender demands. But the Japanese translator translated the word 'consider' as 'ignore,' for some unknown reason. So the 2nd bomb was dropped.[/QUOTE] Almost right. IIRC, Japan's government did indeed send a response in which it stated Japan was considering surrender. But the decision to do so wasn't immediately communicated after Hiroshima was destroyed. There was a delay of one day before government officials could convene, which proved to be fatal. Just to stress the point: Japan had been defeated utterly long before the first bomb was dropped. It wasn't necessary to obliterate two cities (thereby butchering 180,000+ civilians and condemning future generations to horrible genetic mutations) to force the country to surrender, since it was already about to. But that fact tends to get overlooked a lot. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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