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which would be hard to change in the future? The knowledge that the Soviets were about to declare war on Japan would have crushed any hope the Japanese had of negotiating peace terms through the Soviets. The nearing two war fronts would have disabused Japan?s military forces. Japan?s plan to piece together remaining forces against the predicted U.S. invasion was threatened. While it cannot be proven, officially allies of the U.S. had made sanctioned communication between Konoye, saying that Japan?s time had completely run out due to the approaching threats of nuclear destruction and Soviet invasion. These allies believed that immediate surrender might mean the opportunity for the Emperor to retain his throne. There was a chance the Japanese people would have enlisted the Emperor

to bring Japan to surrender by late July or early August of 1945. For these reasons many arguments have been made that the use of the atomic bomb were unnecessary. There is no way we can know for certain whether another approach would have ended the Pacific war sooner and with fewer deaths. But we may regret that such an attempt was not made. Had the attempt failed, the continuing blockade of supplies, the Soviet invasion, and the atomic bombs were still available strategies. The lesson to be learned may be that an extreme use of force should only be the last choice to end conflict. Since the end of World War II, governments have in fact used combinations of all other types of persuasion, but have avoided using nuclear bombs. Bibliography Hiroshima John Hersey ?Documents A

through H? Educational Testing Service. Princeton, NJ 1988 ?Thank God for the Atom Bomb? Paul Fussell. ?Hiroshima: Strategy for Victory? Herbert Feis. Princeton University Press, NJ 1966 ?Hiroshima: The Decision? Herbert Feis. Princeton University Press, NJ 1966 341