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Arizona Sunshine's avatar

I wrote a research paper early in the pursuit of my bachelor's degree at the University of Utah. This was in 1971 which was 55 years ago. My conclusion was that there was no need to drop A bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war in the Pacific. Japan was indeed ready to negotiate surrender. President Harry S. Truman committed a war crime against Japan by selecting two civilian targets instead of military targets. Let that sink in. It was a war crime. A crime against humanity.

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If they had to drop an atomic bomb they could have done it far enough off the coast to demonstrate it's power without killing and radiating people. Or maybe even hit a military base with a smaller one.

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