On 04/11/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Bob Ackley: Obama's Empty Nuclear.

BA> In point of fact the use of those two nukes *was* unnecessary.
BA> Unfortunately for all concerned the US government didn't find out it wasn't
BA> necessary until some months after the fact.
BA>
BA> A month or two before the nukes were used the Japanese government sent a
BA> message to its ambassador in Moscow telling him to ask Stalin to open a
BA> communication line with the Allies in order to talk about ending the war in
BA> the Pacific.  Stalin elected to not pass the message along or take any
BA> other action.  The original message (and any responses) was intercepted by
BA> US intelligence, but was not decrypted or translated until months after the
BA> war had ended.  Diplomatic traffic had a low priority.  The story is is
BA> David Kahn's "The Codebreakers," MacMillan, 1966.
BA>
BA> Note that Stalin declared war on Japan *after* the first nuke was used,
BA> prior to that time the two countries were not at war.  In point of fact,
BA> there was considerable shipping between the US west coast and Vladivostok
BA> throughout the war; said shipping was not convoyed and was not bothered by
BA> the Japanese navy.


Hello Bob. Thanks for the interesting information. I was not aware of any of
that. Can the information be trusted though?

On a related note, what is your, and everyone's, view on the story which has
circulated for years, that President Harry S. Truman was more than aware of
the imminent Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Does anyone here lend it any
creedence, or do you view it as nothing more than conspiracy theory?

Thanks!

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