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Why was it necessary to bomb a peaceful city?

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Why was it necessary to bomb a peaceful city?

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For many decades, each new anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima has caused people to ask the “accursed question”: was it necessary to bomb a city that presented virtually no military threat? And if so, why was it necessary? Historians of many countries have argued that despite the intentional demonstration of power, the atomic bomb was not the main factor that caused Japan to surrender. For the Japanese mentality, the entry of the two-million man Red Army into the war was more terrifying. It was the only military force at that time that had a tremendous amount of ground combat experience and had just defeated Germany. Therefore, historians argue that in using the atomic bomb, the Americans desired to do more than just achieve maximum psychological effect in the war with Japan. Washington wanted to frighten the Soviet Union with the power of the new bomb and strengthen its bargaining position at the Potsdam Conference, which at that time was discussing the postwar arrangement of the

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