‘OPPENHEIMER’ the film. SPLITTING THE ATOM OR SPLITTING THE TRUTH?

Japanese research on this question tends to suggest that that Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the bigger shock to the Japanese military than the bomb. This being so, the question arises whether the timing of the bomb on Hiroshima was designed to pre-empt the invasion of the Red Army. Three days before the fateful August 6th bombing of Hiroshima the Red Army command had informed Stalin they were in position to invade the Japanese mainland.