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The US bombed so many Japanese cities to rubble that the fact that we used a new type of bomb to do it in two cases made no difference. In fact many cities were more thoroughly destroyed by traditional bombing. The group that made the decision to surrender did not even know about the second nuke, which occurred shortly before their meeting. Japan already wanted the USSR to mediate peace negotiations between US and Japan, and that possibility was foreclosed when USSR declared war on Japan. They also had accepted that they could not win against the US, and the USSR joining just made their situation infinitely worse. USSR declared war the day before Japan's leaders decided to surrender, and then it took about another week to get people together to sign documents.