Analysis: The Road To Hiroshima

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In the Road to Hiroshima Documents, it tells us about a planned invasion of Japan which they had called the Kyushu operation. They had planned to do it early November because of the weather conditions that might get worse if they were to wait any longer. That would end up delaying the end of the war for many months. This operation was their first attempted plan in not using the atomic bomb as not many people knew about it. And also, it wouldn't have cost as much as doing other things. Putting up a lodgment in Kyushu would be essential. In the fact that by invading Tokyo it would force them to surrender and also it would have given the United States a stronger hold on Japan. The military commanders in charge of planning the invasion faced serious

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