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It's real easy to armchair quarterback 80 years after the fact. If this was true, why did Japan , not surrender after the first bomb? Did any of the US generals who condemned the bombing, resign, beforehand?
Japan, gave no outward indication, that they were looking to surrender, and in fact had been training civilians, to repel, an American invasion.
There never surrender tactics, on every Pacific island, would not give rise to optimism, that they would suddenly change.
I have no doubt that talks were underway, and that the Soviet's entry into the war on Japan, also played a role, but the Japanese had plenty of opportunities, before the bombs were dropped.

I don't trust the LA Times, to report it any other way, than to try and show the US, as a war mongering nation, intent upon killing innocent people. They are just an extension of Antifa.