Thursday, August 6, 2015

70 Years Ago Today

Seventy years ago today the United Stated dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima.  Did this bomb that instantly killed 60,000 people really save more people who would have been killed in a land assault?  Would the Japanese military government eventually have given in with the submarine blockade?  Was the bombing really necessary?  Have we learned anything?   



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