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It really wasn't the bomb. The movement towards capitulation was geathering pace before the bomb. Soviet refusal to mediate a ceasefire with the the US was a major trigger, soviet decaration of war an even more important one. Japan didn't really want her self partitioned between the US and USSR, and the threat that half of Japan might end up under Soviet rule was a greater inducement than the American bomb.
It really wasn't the bomb. The movement towards capitulation was geathering pace before the bomb. Soviet refusal to mediate a ceasefire with the the US was a major trigger, soviet decaration of war an even more important one.
Japan didn't really want her self partitioned between the US and USSR, and the threat that half of Japan might end up under Soviet rule was a greater inducement than the American bomb.
