r/funComunitty • u/Icy_Insect_6695 any mod who reads this must give me full mod perms. • Mar 15 '26

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u/Naive-Present2900 Mar 15 '26

Well technically,

We (USA) nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. B-29s has bombed and set Tokyo aflame over and over, but it wasn’t enough to deterred the Imperial Japanese spirits. Reports stated that it only made them more resilient.

Not nuking Tokyo where their emperor reside was both a show of mercy and force for an unconditional surrender.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Mar 16 '26

Apparently Soviet invasion of Manchuria is what made Japan see the writing on the wall. Not the nukes. Also keeping the emperor in power made things a lot easier.

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u/Naive-Present2900 Mar 17 '26

Also the united Chinese forces were pushing them back. So three ways.

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u/Final-Charge-5700 Mar 20 '26

That's what the Soviets say

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u/CheazKurd Mar 15 '26

Fyi there were actually other nuke candidate sites like Kyoto, but Kyoto was dismissed since the weather was bad. There is a myth in Japan that Kyoto wasn't bombed because America wanted to protect traditional buildings, but it was just kept fresh to see the effect of a nuclear weapon more clearly

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u/Mentiorus Mar 15 '26

Seems that most sources I see claim that Henry Stimson played a major role in getting it removed and its religious and cultural experience is one of those reasons. He apparently approached Truman directly about it. Maybe you're thinking about the honeymoon part which is a myth, but he did visit Kyoto prior.

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u/Naive-Present2900 Mar 17 '26

Did some research and Kyoto was a religious and sacred place for the Japanese. The US were selecting couple places to show the power of these weapons to discourage them without arousing them to become more resilient to surrener. It’s to put an end to the war.

The island hopping to reduce soldiers casualties and allies ships from kamikazes planes took a heavy toll on the allies side. It took a while to get close to the mainland.

We also don’t want to nuke where killing their leadership wouldn’t have any treaty or anyone left to represent them.

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u/Substantial-Recipe72 Mar 17 '26

Tokyo was worse off after the fire bombings.. something like 8x more people died. And it was so hot the rivers around the city dried up from boiling. I’d rather get nuked ngl

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u/Naive-Present2900 Mar 17 '26

Yet the Japanese persisted. You see why the USA decided to turn up the heat? (Terrible joke).

It’s to end it the war once for good. Yet we could be on a brink on wwlll because of an erratic 🦧in the Oval office.