THE DECISION TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB It makes sense to say that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviet Union, and was not a strict military measure to force Japan to surrender unconditionally. This is a fact, because of the condition Japan was in and the fear of Soviet intervention, combines to be a very convincing assertion. Towards the end of WWII, Japan was already badly routed by …showed first 75 words of 569 total…

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