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Could the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima have been avoided?

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Historians disagree. The Traditionalists vote “No.” However there are Revisionists, particularly, American historian, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, who believes that the Japanese would have surrendered without the two atomic bombs being dropped. read more

Three days later, a second atomic strike on the city of Nagasaki killed some 37,000 people and injured another 43,000. Together the two bombs eventually killed an estimated 200,000 Japanese civilians. Between the two bombings, Soviet Russia joined the United States in war against Japan. read more

Yes, the bombs could have been avoided if the Japanese never flew into Hawaii and murder 2,500 Americans in their sleep and which brought the United States into World War II or they could have surrendered LONG before the bombs were dropped. The fact they did both of these things led to the bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. read more

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