Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Bob Ackley:

 RW> 12 Apr 09 04:34, Bob Ackley wrote to Jeff Snyder:

 BA>> AFAIK there had been no reaction from the Japanese government
 BA>> immediately after the August 6th bombing.  Also AFAIK the only thing
 BA>> of significance that happened during those three days was that
 BA>> Stalin declared war on Japan.

 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 surrender
 RW> as posed in the Potsdam agreement in the same message. Apparently
 RW> 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

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

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