Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to Bob Ackley:

 RW>>> On the day after the Nagasaki bomb, August 10, 1945 the Japanese
 RW>>> offered to surrender. This was thru the Swiss government, who
 RW>>> informed the US government. The Japanese also agreed to the
 RW>>> surrender as posed in the Potsdam agreement in the same message.
 RW>>> Apparently already aprised of the contents by the Swiss.

 RW>>> You can read a copy of it here.

 RW>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450810a.html

 BA>> I don't do Internet and in any case I don't dispute that the Japanese
 BA>> offered unconditional surrender after the Nagasaki blast.  What I
 BA>> said was that the Japanese wanted to open surrender negotiations a
 BA>> couple of months *before* the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, and that
 BA>> Stalin chose not to pass the message along to his allies.

 MG> I'm highly suspect of whatever resource you got that factoid from.

That *fact* came from David Kahn's book 'The Codebreakers,' published in
1966 with a second edition published in the 1990s.  I have both editions.
Mr. Kahn is an acknowledged authority on code breaking - the book goes back
centuries and works right up to the 1960s - and on US efforts in that regard.

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