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Philosophically or just in terms of what happened there? I know more trivia than cohesive facts...It was where the U.S. dropped the 1st nuclear bomb (nicknamed Little Boy), which, I believe, was the beginning of the end of WWII in the Pacific Theater. The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay. Another bomb was dropped about a week later. I would read up more on this topic; it really is something that everyone should have some knowledge of. There is a book entitled Hiroshima which explains in great detail what happened, and it must be fairly straightforward to read because I remember reading it in middle school.

The dropping of the bomb was justified by the U.S. at the time because it did not appear that Japan would ever concede defeat; they were willing to fight to the death at the cost of many, many lives on both sides. (Think kamakize attacks; they were quite fierce warriors from what I understand). I think that historically, the US has not been criticized too badly for having dropped the bomb because it did bring the war to a fairly swift end, and then the US took a very active major role in helping to rebuild Japan. That is probably why we are on quite friendly terms and they don't hate the US like other countries seem to.

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