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Why was Hiroshima bombed?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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Firstly to scare the Japanese into surrendering secondly and possibly firstly as well to see what would happen to a population that was affected by nuclear attack. and thirdly to scare the hell out of the whole world and with the help of the Russians get the biggest arms race going that history has ever seen. (A real little money spinner)

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The United Stated dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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12y ago

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the cities in Japan were the US dropped atomic bombs over on August 6 and 9 1945. The Japanese surrendered on August 14 1945.

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Harry Truman did end the war because Japan agreed to surrender on the 14th of August.

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Forced Japan to surrender, Germany and Italy already defeated at this point and Russia had changed sides

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