And that man was Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
One man, it seems, played a far more important part. He and other dissenting voices believe that the real reason Japan surrendered was down to something far less titanic and earth-shattering than the nuclear bombs. So says eminent historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. It inflicted a serious body blow, but it was hardly a knock-out punch.” “The Hiroshima bomb did not make the Japanese ruling elite feel as though their backs were to the wall.
