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War and Military History
Atomic Bombs
During the world wars why would people want to use atomic bombs?
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Wiki User
June 14, 2007 3:00PM
The atomic weaponshaveonly been used twice. Both in WWII in 1945 by the USA. They wereused because theplanned invasion of the Japanese mainland by the allieswas calculated to have possibly amillion plusallied casualties.
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