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The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, which interviewed 700 Japanese military and political officials after the war came to this conclusion: "Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to I November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
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Sub collisions happen all the time. A few years back right here near Oahu the USS Greeneville rammed and sank the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing trawler with a crew of students aboard.
A Brief History Of US/Russian submarine collisions
Here's a short list of known collisions.
1961 USS Swordfish (SSN-579) is on a spy mission in Soviet waters when a
Soviet sub surfaces underneath it.
196? A US sub, possibly USS Skipjack, on a spy mission in Soviet waters,
collides with a destroyer. Finally made public in a New York Times article
in 1975.
July 1965. USS Medregal rams a Greek freighter.
March 1966. USS Barbel rams a freighter near North Vietnam.
December 1967. USS George C. Marshall (SSBN-654) is grazed by a Russian sub.
October 9, 1968. This appears to be the historical precedent for the Kursk
sinking. A Russian sub operating normally collided with an unknown sub in
the Barents sea, leaving a sizable hole in the Russian sub. Russian
intelligence notes the arrival of a damaged sub in a Norwegian port a few
days later.
November 1969. USS Gato's sail hits the hull of a soviet sub.
March 14, 1970. USS Sturgeon bashes her sonar dome against a Russian sub's
sail.
June 1970. USS Tautog is rammed by Black Lila. It is erroneously assumed at
the time that Black Lila sank.
March 1971. An unnamed US sub operating 12 miles off of the Soviet coast
collides with a Russian sub. Reported in the New York Times in 1975.
Mid-1971. USS Dace hits a Russian sub in the Mediterranean.
Late 1971 or early 1972. USS Puffer is trailing a Soviet sub when the Soviet
sub unexpectedly dives, bumping into Puffer.
March 1974. USS Pintado rams a Soviet missile boat while on a spy mission in
Soviet waters near Petropavlovsk. Reported in the San Diego Evening Tribune
in 1975.
November 3rd, 1974. USS James Madison hits an unknown Russian Victor class
attack sub in the North Sea. Reported by columnist Jack Anderson.
1981. HMS Sceptre is trailing a Russian sub and rear-ends it.
October 1986. USS Augusta, while testing a new computer sonar system to make
detecting enemy subs easier, rams a Soviet sub. The Augusta claims they
rammed a Delta class. Others report it was a Yankee missile boat that
subsequently sank.
December 24, 1986. HMS Splendid and a Soviet sub were trying to dodge out of
each other's way when they collided. HMS Splendid's towed sonar array became
tangled in the other sub and was lost.
February 11, 1992. USS Baton Rouge hits a Soviet sub near Murmansk. For the
first time, and in response to Yeltsin's demands, the US Navy publicly
acknowledges the collision.
March 20, 1993. USS Grayling with a Russian sub in the Barent's Sea.
And of course, the Russian submarine Kursk, officially reported as destroyed by a torpedo malfunction, is thought by many to have been rammed by a US sub spying on their testing of a new torpedo system.