report from the combined British-American Intelligence committee to the U.S. Combined Chiefs of Staff, July 8, 1945...

"We believe that a considerable portion of the Japanese population now consider absolute military defeat to be probable.

 The increasing effects of the sea blockade and devastation wrought by strategic bombing, which has already rendered millions homeless and destroyed 25-50% of the built-up areas of Japans most important cities.

 The entry of Russia into the war should convince Japan of the inevitability of its complete defeat.....

 

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