AZrailwhale
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That contradicts his earlier statement that by the end of the war, Japanese would only be spoken in hell. And disregards the fact that the Japanese "peace feelers" came from individuals NOT part of the Japanese government who were not authorized to make offers to the allies."Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, the tough and outspoken commander of the U.S. Third Fleet, which participated in the American offensive against the Japanese home islands in the final months of the war, publicly stated in 1946 that "the first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment." The Japanese, he noted, had "put out a lot of peace feelers through Russia long before" the bomb was used. "