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For years debate has raged over whether the US was right to drop two atomic bombs on Japan during the final weeks of the Second World War. The first bomb, dropped on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, resulted in a total death toll of around 140,000.
Aug 9, 2020 · But Hasegawa said the accepted history of the atomic bombs in the U.S.—and much of the Western world—argues that both bombs were necessary to bring Japan to its knees.
Atomic cloud over Hiroshima, 6 August 1945. The question of whether or not the United States was right to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is surely among the 20th century’s most enduring and divisive.
- Harry Atkins
Aug 4, 2020 · Seventy-five years ago in summer 1945, the United States' plans for unleashing its atomic bombs went beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Focusing his gaze on Japan, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves,...
- Alex Wellerstein
Aug 11, 2023 · LIFTON: Probably the most important part of the press release is the first sentence, which reads, 16 hours ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese army...
Jun 3, 2023 · Most Americans approved of dropping two atomic bombs on Japan; some wished their countrymen had dropped more. Many people—millions of veterans returning home, their long-awaiting families—were ...
Jul 27, 2023 · What’s happening. ," which tells the story of how physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer became “the father of the atomic bomb,” has given new energy to a debate that has raged for nearly 80 years:...
