O’NEILL: Eighty years ago, Japan was on verge of surrender

O’NEILL: Eighty years ago, Japan was on verge of surrender

In 1985, ABC aired a staged U.S. invasion of Japan to acknowledge the 40th anniversary of the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945). It was designed to draw the deliberate conclusion that more lives would have been lost in a U.S. invasion of Japan than had been lost in the carnage of the atomic bombs. The 80th anniversary is an occasion to set the record straight. John O'Neill Truth be told, the ABC d…