Little of the military affirmation was bombast. None of it changed until the atomic bombs, both of them. Even then, some of the key generals insisted the fighting should continue in the ashes. And the resolution of even the less fiercely committed decision makers ebbed so slowly, with such distant prospect of the eventual acceptance of common sense over bushido, the Way of the Warrior, that continued resistance was all but inevitable. Their relegation of other considerations — such as the desire to continue living — to secondary importance much diminishes the significance of the evidence of
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