There's certainly still healthy debate surrounding the necessity to drop the second nuke. Granted, a lot of it is from armchair historians. But there's a lot of different possibilities for the their reasoning, Boukert brings up a common one in response to your comment. It may have even been a mistranslated message.
Unfortunately there's a lot of noise in that search, which makes it difficult to really determine anything for certain.
There's certainly still healthy debate surrounding the necessity to drop the second nuke. Granted, a lot of it is from armchair historians. But there's a lot of different possibilities for the their reasoning, Boukert brings up a common one in response to your comment. It may have even been a mistranslated message.
Unfortunately there's a lot of noise in that search, which makes it difficult to really determine anything for certain.
It was the biggest fuck you in world history.
After Hiroshima America asked for Japan's unconditional surrender. Japan went silent, so America says, OK, have another one.