The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives. | Global Research

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives. | Global Research

Atomic Weapons Were Not Needed to End the War or Save Lives

Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American
and Japanese lives.

But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise.

The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group, assigned by President Truman
to study the air attacks on Japan, produced a report in July of 1946
that concluded (52-56):

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and
supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved,
it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and
in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.