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WI Japan offered terms including the release of POWs and withdrawal from all occupied lands some time in the spring or summer of 1945 prior to July.

There were certainly elements in the Japanese leadership who wanted to stop. Many would not have liked the idea of Japan being cut into zones of occupation which included a Soviet one- which must have looked like real possibility.


1a) If nuclear weapons had never been used in anger would there be less fear of their use?

1b) Would the bomb have been a smaller priority for Stalin?

1c) When would the general public first hear about the bomb?

2) Would this have prevented North Korea?

3) What would have been the effect in China?

4) What would be the relations between such a Japan and the West?

5) How much danger would there be of a "stab in the back"?
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