We had a radio so we knew all about the bomb
and we knew that this may be the break that would end it
that maybe the Emperor would seize this
as an excuse to bring the war to an end,
because the Japanese nation was shattered.
It was defeated, defeat beyond belief.
They were starving to death, their industries were smashed,
their navy was at the bottom of the ocean.
Japan was... sixty of it's cities had been
burned out by the American fire raids.
Millions, nearly five million people were homeless in Japan.
The Japanese were absolutely...
the Americans had devastated Japan
but still they wouldn't surrender until the bomb was dropped.
And we knew they wouldn't surrender.
They had never surrendered anywhere else.
But the bomb saved us.
And it saved millions of Japanese civilians as well.