>Где можно найти этих АМЕРИКАНСКИХ историков?
>Веду душеспасительные беседы с американцами (бесполезное дело, они уверены даже в том, что это они победили немцев. Русские помогали) - так что пригодится.
Вот что к примеру пишет полковник Паррингтон (там масса ссылок, которые приведут Вас к первоисточникам) в статье “Mutually Assured Destruction Revisited” (Airpower Journal, Winter, 1997). Не так давно выкачивал всю статью в PDF из сети – думаю она до сих пор висит на сайте упомянутого журнала:
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Even the atomic bombs, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August, were insufficient to convince the Japanese Peace Cabinet, as American diplomats had dubbed it, to submit to an “unconditional surrender.” In vote after vote, they rejected the Allies ’ ultimatum as “a religious article of faith.” Only personal intervention by the emperor changed the calculus.
What finally convinced Hirohito to act was not the atomic bomb or the threat of a US invasion but an event more compel ling than both. On 8 August 1946, two days after Hiroshima and on the eve of Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. The longestablished foe of Japan in the Far East attacked across a broad frontier with a ruthless million-man Red Army in coordination with their Maoist Chinese comrades. Decades of humiliating Japanese triumph and aggression over its East Asian neighbors were coming to fruition. “The thought of a Russian invasion was terrifying enough, but the thought of a Chinese revenge raised cold sweat.” The emperor, fully aware of what had happened to the czar and his family at the hands of the Bolsheviks, wasted no time in coming to a decision.
