Was Japan Going to Surrender Before Hiroshima?

Japan's leaders said Hiroshima forced them to surrender because it made a terrific explanation for losing the war. But the facts show that Hiroshima did not force Japan to surrender.

Was Japan willing to surrender before the atomic bomb?

Before the bombings, Eisenhower had urged at Potsdam, “the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

Was Japan on the verge of surrender before Hiroshima?

The top American military leaders who fought World War II, much to the surprise of many who are not aware of the record, were quite clear that the atomic bomb was unnecessary, that Japan was on the verge of surrender, and—for many—that the destruction of large numbers of civilians was immoral.