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Originally Posted by baddog
Your logic(?) escapes me.
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I don't see how it does..? If you have the most powerful weapon on Earth (which Japan did not believe America had) and use it once (which proved to Japan America had it), that should be more than enough to show your enemy what you are capable of. Why would dropping two, three, four or more bombs have any effect beyond the initial bomb? Sure it's devastating the second time, but no more so than the first. It's not like the second bomb was significantly more destructive than the first or caused significantly more widespread fallout.
The only thing I can come up with is that they were on their own timetable and were going to surrender at or around the same time they did regardless of the 2nd bomb being dropped. The only other thing I could see is they assumed we only had ONE bomb and after it was dropped we gave up our trump card? and I highly doubt that line of reasoning.