And a lot besides. It didn't stop them in 1962. See below Archipov item.

I hadn't heard that before. Interesting I had an in-law uncle who because he escaped from Changi was transferred to work the Nagasaki coal mine and was there when the bomb went off. He went blind because of the inadequate diet. He was a lovely guy but you couldn't mention anything Japanese in his hearing.

@Green_Chile_Type
Four cities were the potential target, Tokyo was removed as it had already been firebombed and Truman wanted an undamaged city, to demonstrate his destructive power, Kyoto was personally forbidden by Truman as he and his wife had visited the city on their honeymoon and Mrs Truman objected, Kokura was then the chosen target but Truman was persuaded to send a last minute order to change to the port of Nagasaki under (false) the impression that the port was being used as an arsenal, which was ironic as Kokura did have an enormous weapons cache inside of the city.
As for peace overtures, the first was made in 1943 by the Japanese once it became clear that the USSR would attack Japan after the defeat of the Germans. Hirohito incorrectly thought his people would face far less retribution from the Allies than he would from the soviets, having already been informed by the German ambassador to Japan that with the entry of the Russians in to the war on the allied side Hitler was finished, as his insistence on fighting a war on two fronts was utter folly.
BY 1945 Japan was begging for peace, had already signed away their empire and offered unconditional surrender, but Truman wanted a show of strength, that would have the whole world terrified of the USA, and so ignored the Japanese until after August 9th bombing.

Correct me if I'm wrong but...I understand not wanting to keep the thing in a closet and the air burst / ground burst test,and Tokyo as the main target however weather over Tokyo was not as good as Nagasaki which was the secondary target. The decision being the crew's because of visibility! There was no GPS or laser guided anything. Radio silence, and fuel also entered into the picture. I believe the Norton bomb sight was used but the ground HAD to be visible.

@LenHazell53 there was actually a list with several other targets worldwide. Russia having a few on it.

See: "attack" link in this paragraph of this article --- {There was talk in the Pentagon and President Truman’s war room of taking advantage of America’s monopoly on nuclear weapons to attack the USSR and make sure it could never develop a bomb. In fact, there was talk of using atom bombs to destroy Russia as an industrial nation.} [rt.com]

How true! Radioactive fallout has no borders!

@Paganlyl There is a great book by Nevile Shute about it. It was made into a film with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and other famous face. Old black and white. I recommend it to everybody to watch, especially the ones who want to bomb China, Iran and other places.

Murica'.

You cannot unsee Team America!

@girlwithsmiles Everyone has AIDS!

A complainer or one with spinal fortitude to reveal the truth of other's particularly heinous behaviours?

@FrayedBear a professional complainer who makes money by bitching about everything that he chooses to attack from his own country, his adopted country and the USA too. It's so easy to pretend you have "spinal fortitude" when you make money by bitching and crying wolf of things past because the past can't be changed. His "premonitions" on repeating heinous history are ridiculous and bogus.

See the Archipov reply above.

Probably!

US typical or John Pilger typical?

@FrayedBear The US, clearly.

The US was itching to test the new found tech and went outbof it's way to do so.

They guinea pigged those people like they have done many times over before and since. Just another US crime against humanity.

Nothing to see here.