Re:Your easy answer is, alas, too easy.
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Space Burial
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By nuking two cities, the United States forced a surrender.
I'm amazed no one has posted a challenge to this assertion. Few historians accept this justification of history's worst act of terror uncritically. The Japanese were trying to surrender anyway.
This article is a good starting point for anyone interested in the facts of the matter.
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I'm amazed no one has posted a challenge to this assertion. Few historians accept this justification of history's worst act of terror uncritically. The Japanese were trying to surrender anyway.
This article is a good starting point for anyone interested in the facts of the matter.