World War II is the most cruel and tragic war in human history, in this war affecting all continents of the world, there are 61 countries and regions, 2 billion people have been involved, the combat area reached 22 million square kilometers, according to incomplete statistics, the war military and civilian casualties of more than 90 million people, resulting in more than 5 trillion US dollars in losses.
Through the concerted efforts of anti-fascist forces all over the world, the evil regime headed by Germany, Italy and Japan was finally defeated and the final victory was won.
On May 28, 1945, Germany surrendered, at this time the Axis powers were only Left Japan still stubbornly resisting, although the Allies expected to suppress step by step to make the Japanese army recognize the fact that it was about to lose, but the Japanese, who had been brainwashed by fanatical militarism, clamored to fight until the last moment, and the Japanese base camp was actively preparing for a "decisive battle on the mainland".
At this time, Japan still had dozens of elite divisions on the mainland, about 2 million army, and the same number of troops were also deployed in the Chinese battlefield, and in the Pacific theater, the Americans had to pay a very heavy price for every step closer to Japan and seize an island or reef.
In order to facilitate the surrender of Japan, the U.S. Command decided to bomb Japan with both military and non-military targets as soon as possible, and to specifically locate Japan's military industrial centers of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Okura. Before the bombing, the Allies had distributed a large number of bombing warnings written in Japanese over these cities, declaring that the cities were about to be destroyed and urging civilians to evacuate, but the Japanese people and the government believed that the people and the government were nothing more than allied sensations, and the rest of the matter was known to everyone, on August 6 and August 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing hundreds of thousands of Japanese casualties. The Japanese Emperor eventually issued an edict and was forced to surrender.
At that time, the Allies built a large number of airfields in the Soviet Union, China, and the Pacific island chain, and the firepower of heavy bombers was enough to cover the entire territory of Japan. Many people think that the weather conditions at that time did not allow it, but this was not the case. In fact, the United States dropped atomic bombs to avoid Tokyo, in large part because this person lived in Tokyo, he was the Emperor of Japan.
Prior to this, many Allied aircraft had bombed the city where the emperor lived, and it was enough to experience anything. In fact, Americans have many scruples.
First of all, the first aspect is the stability of its plan, near Tokyo is the most heavily guarded place of the Japanese army, there are a large number of anti-aircraft firepower deployed, the US atomic bomb is the first time to be dropped, it is inevitable that there will be an accident in the middle, in case the aircraft is shot down, the atomic bomb is captured by the Japanese, the consequences are unimaginable.
This is a concern, the main one being the American fear that if the emperor is killed by an atomic bomb, the result will be immeasurable, and the emperors have no surname, because in the minds of the Japanese, the emperor is like the embodiment of the gods, let alone in the frenzied period of World War II. If the Japanese emperor is "crushed", it is bound to trigger a frenzied counterattack and resistance in Japan, and aggravate the confrontation with the Allies.
In August 1943, U.S. government advisers Joseph Sergeru and Eugene Hodman made a proposal to Truman that if the Allies took a stern approach and abolished the emperor's losses, then Japan would fight to the end for the emperor, which would also inflict heavy losses on the battlefield.
In addition, the United States also had its own calculations, and if they could ensure that the emperor was safe, then they would be able to gain the gratitude of the Japanese so that in the future Japan could be used as an outpost and bridgehead against the Soviet camp. It has to be said that these American visions are still very long-term, so whether it is a nuclear attack on Japan or a military court trial after World War II. The emperor escaped.