re: How insane were Douglas McArthur and Curtis LeMay?

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The United States didn't want the USSR jumping in the Pacific war last minute after the Japanese had already effectively been beaten and expanding the purview of their Communist empire. The invasion of Japan was not designed with any reliance on Soviet manpower. Many historians believe that the rapid use of the atomic bombs, when the scheduled start of Olympic was still several months out, were in part motivated by bringing the war to its earliest possible conclusion and preventing the Soviets from grabbing up territory from the Japanese Empire while it was steadily collapsing

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