It was more like 70 milliom

"I consider the Joint Proclamation a rehash of the Declaration at the Cairo Conference. As for the Government, it does not attach any important value to it at all. The only thing to do is just kill it with silence . We will do nothing but press on to the bitter end to bring about a successful completion of the war."

-Kantarō Suzuki, prime minister of Japan

@viridian btw russia and japan never signed any peace agreements.

@NoIdea They did actually

@Flash more info plz? i didn't knew that

Soviet-Japaneese neutrality pact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Japanese_Neutrality_Pact

"That alone should be enough evidence also your thing about the emperor is also p inaccurate"
*fails to show any sort of evidence, quotes, etc.

@Flash just checked, this pact was before the declaration of war between japan and urss (45). But didn't knew about this

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>says that while not providing quotes himself

Yeah, the soviets broke the pact

Like Germany broke the molotov-ribbentrop pact

The use of this barbarous weapon…was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.” —Adm. William Leahy, Truman's Chief of Staff

“It was a mistake.... [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it.” —Adm. William “Bull” Halsey

No one likes that we had to use the bomb

“the Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.”

^commanding general of us air forces henry arnold

But we had no choice unless we wanted another 2 million deaths

They literally surrendered

before nagasaki

the session to discuss surrender began before nagasaki

any details about that?

Yeah gimme a sec

The beginning of the meeting and the Nagasaki bombing were 30 minutes apart

There was no way the U.S knew they were discussing surrender

@Flash which meeting are you talking about?

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The Supreme war council

I think was the name of the group which met

and it took multiple cabinet meetings spanning 3 days to finally agree on surrending

@viridian Wher'd you go?

yeah

um idk if thats a good excuse for killing 120000 civilians

Again, civillians saw the emporer as a god and were killling themselves rather than surrender to U.S soldiers, plus we dropped leaflets ffs

leaflets didnt list hiroshima as a target

also, nagasaki leaflets were never dropped

ik what yr talking about, the lemay leaflets

also do you have a non american source in the supposed "millions of civilians ready to kill themselves rather than surredner"

what happened to these supposed people when japan surrendered?

also if by killing themselves you mean jumping off cliffs