~>  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.

I didn't think there was much controversy that Japan was at that point
ready to NEGOTIATE a possible surrender.  But it wasn't ready to
unconditionally surrender, and Truman would accept nothing less.
 
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