Professor of history Robert James Maddox. – “Even after both bombs had fallen and Russia entered the war, Japanese militants insisted on such lenient peace terms that moderates knew there was no sense even transmitting them to the United States. Hirohito had to intervene personally on two occasions during the next few days to induce hardliners to abandon their conditions” “That the militarists would have accepted such a settlement before the bombs is farfetched, to say the least.”[1]
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