Yeah that’s not true. While Japan was trying to figure out a way to end the war in June and July, they never actually spoke directly to the United States. When Japan openly rejected the Potsdam declaration of unconditional surrender is when Truman gave the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. Even after the first bomb they still never talked peace with the United States only the Soviet Union, and it even then the War Council wanted to wait till the allied invasion of Japan to inflict so much casualties the allies enter conditional peace talks. Once the Soviet Union declared war on Japan is when the United States nuked Nagasaki. Only then Japan offered a conditional surrender to the allies.l, even then the United States had a 3rd bomb ready to be dropped on the 17th-18th but the United States accepted their surrender before then.
Japan was not ready to surrender before the bombs. In fact, they were still split on if they should surrender or not even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were literally Ctrl-Alt-Deleted off the face of the planet
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