Ron Collins
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Read some history before you spout off.

My two-word contribution:

August Storm.

Keep reading, yourself.

Every armchair theory I ever saw about the relations between the bombs and the surrender, has proceeded as if the invasion and total over-running of Manchuria, Sakhalin and the Kurils, in two weeks, by Soviet forces which had been exported over a single rail line across a dozen time zones since the fall of Berlin, and whose campaign which military historians have upheld as one of the most staggeringly brilliant of any combined-force operation in the entire war carried out ALL its objectives in the days AFTER Nagasaki…. either never happened at all, or were such a trivial footnote to history as to be unworthy of mention.

Maybe, just maybe, the sudden and violent presence of the most powerful, capable and combat-hardened fighting force in known history on the east Asian mainland, had just an eentsy little tad to do with the final outcome of a war that most folks think had already ended, before its most overwhelming military campaign in six years, even began?

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