This is not true!
Japanese did not surrender until after the second bomb.
There are reports that they were planning to surrender, but no formal offer had been made by the Japanese.
Miss Noland,
Your stance of WWII is a heavily influenced by the anti-war lobby’s rhetoric.
Before we cry big tears about Japanese and Germans and Italians, you gotta account for 100s of 1000s of Allied civilians and soldiers who lost everything due to a war that was clearly imposed on them by the axis of evil.
I appreciate your humanistic stance on things, but it is not good to get carried away by emotions while forgetting the atrocities committed by Japanese, Germans and Italians.