weary ) wrote:

: "Greg Hennessy" wrote in message
: ...

....

: So what - the whole point of the discussion is that an invasion was not
: necessary.
: Even the USSBS says that Japan would have surrendered.
:
:
: Of course you will give us the precise quote detailing when exactly *when*
: this would have happened and you also tell us how this information was
: beamed back in time to allied planners taking tough decisions.

: The US was well aware of peace feelers being put out by Japan at least
: two months before the bombs were dropped..

Peace feelers, not surrender feelers. Feelers for peace with
the following conditions:
- No occupation of Japan
- Japan to retain all its pre-1941 conquests
- War crimes trials (if any) to be initiated and run by the Japanese
government
(and a few other conditions as well)
The United States was not interested in peace under those
conditions.