the outcome of the election

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Given the incredible tenacity of the Japanese fighters up to that point in the war, it was reasonable to believe that they would keep fighting.  Some historians have argued that signals were being sent via third parties that they were willing to work out a surrender.  Trouble is, plain speaking typically works better, and the unconditional surrender doctrine in re Both Germany and Japan was already in place.
Occhi
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Not only that, but the Japanese did not even surrender after the first bomb was dropped! It took bomb #2 to convince them.


Just remember (not you of course, Occhi) but we were not the ones who invented and implemented the term "Total War".



-A