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Earlier this week, on August 6th, America as a nation commemorated the 80th anniversary of dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. We dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9.

America had reached the culmination of the supersecret Manhattan Project by exploding the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, near Los Alamos, New Mexico.

For many decades now, Americans as well as people around the world have vigorously debated whether America should have dropped “the bomb.”

In order to answer that question, one needs to attempt to imagine oneself in the situation of America’s military and political leaders in July 1945. The world had been at war since September 1939, and America had been at war since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 194

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