okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick) (05/23/86)
In article <171@sci.UUCP> daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel) writes: >> Truman saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese, by dropping those >> bombs. >> > >Did he? Someone told me (this is net.rumor, right? so i can use third+ hand >sources) that the Japanese had surrendered between the dropping of the first >bomb and the dropping of the second. And that, since they no longer had >an embassy in the states, they used their friends and ours, the Soviets, to >transmit their surrender. And that the Soviets delayed telling Washington >about the surrender until after the second bomb had been dropped. ...seems kind of ironic. Wasn't there a similar delay on December 7, 1941? One that caused large casualties among Americans? Well, it's 45 years in the past now. May it never happen again. ---Duck