The A-bomb on Hiroshima

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"No single military event in history had long-term consequences so profound as the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It was not simply that a city full of people died horribly--that had happened before, and even on a slightly larger scale, in several conventional "fire raids" during World War II. But those previous raids had required on the order of a thousand planes; Hiroshima was destroyed by a single plane dropping a single bomb. By simple extension, a thousand nuclear-armed planes could destroy a thousand cities in a single raid. Civilization could be incinerated in a day.

It is usually in the broad, long-term and moral context that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (and of Nagasaki three days later) has been considered. But it was also a military operation of war--and seemingly a decisive one, since Japan surrendered .... "

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