... surrender. Japan was ready to surrender long before the bombing run of Hiroshima. Naval blockades had cut off any outside resources to the island nation. Their citizens were starving and oil reserves were running very low. However the Japanese wanted to safeguard the position of Emperor Hirohito. Many argue that the bombing of Hiroshima was to force the unconditional surrender of ... on Hiroshima, after destroying all but a few cities with fire bombing raids, was more about the dollar value. After all the United States had paid a great price for this powerful weapon. The only way to let...

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