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John Wheatley
@nudgestradamus
Editor of https://t.co/W15zttclAc. Writer and presenter. Former photonics research student, lived in Japan and Korea, speaks Japanese.
Aug 8, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Let's clear up some mistakes in the popular narrative about the atomic bombings.

"Japan wouldn't have surrendered without nuking two cities - so it saved lives compared to a ground invasion." This is false.

Reason 1: Japan was already trying to surrender, and the US knew it. MAGIC intercepts show that the Japanese leadership had reached out to the USSR in July 1945 to seek a brokered peace.

The Showa Emperor had directly instructed the cabinet to seek a generous peace in a meeting on 22nd June 1945.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/28458…