{"id":9879,"date":"2025-08-07T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/791169701662408704-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:02:49","slug":"791169701662408704-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/791169701662408704-2\/","title":{"rendered":"791169701662408704"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_0.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_1.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_2.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_3.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_4.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_5.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_6.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/119849804772_7.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donotdestroy.tumblr.com\/post\/119849804772\/atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-the\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">donotdestroy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><b>Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The United States gave Japan a <b>warning and a deadline <\/b>to surrender before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, though not with an explicit mention of the <b>atomic bomb<\/b> itself.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Key Warning: The Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>Potsdam Declaration<\/b> was issued by the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.<\/li>\n<li>It called for <b>Japan\u2019s unconditional surrender<\/b>, warning of \u201cprompt and utter destruction\u201d if they refused.<\/li>\n<li>It did <b>not mention the atomic bomb specifically<\/b>, as the weapon had not yet been used publicly and was still secret.<\/li>\n<li>Japan was given an <b>ultimatum<\/b>, though <b>no exact deadline date<\/b> was specified.<\/li>\n<li>Japan\u2019s government <b>rejected<\/b> the ultimatum (or more accurately, chose to <b>ignore it<\/b>, which was interpreted as rejection by the Allies).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><br \/>\nWhat happened next:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On <b>August 6, 1945<\/b>, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on <b>Hiroshima<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>On <b>August 8<\/b>, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.<\/li>\n<li>On <b>August 9<\/b>, the second atomic bomb was dropped on <b>Nagasaki<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Japan announced its intention to surrender on <b>August 15, 1945<\/b>, leading to the formal surrender on <b>September 2, 1945<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<b>Summary<\/b>:\n<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. did issue a <b>surrender ultimatum (Potsdam Declaration)<\/b> before the bombings, but did not reveal that an atomic bomb would be used. The warning was serious but <b>vague<\/b> about the nature of the coming destruction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>donotdestroy: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The United States &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[759,1513,1594,2174,2765,793,505,817,1770,656,2766,2768,902,825,2769,2770,2767,2771,2466,1647,2772,581,583,297,2049,218,106,1047,2074,1654],"class_list":["post-9879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-ai","tag-america","tag-american","tag-army","tag-atomic","tag-black-and-white","tag-bomb","tag-chatgpt","tag-dead","tag-documentary","tag-hiroshima","tag-hitler","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-jew","tag-military","tag-nagasaki","tag-navy","tag-nazi","tag-nuclear","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-us-air-force","tag-us-navy","tag-usa","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-ii","tag-ww-ii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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