They applied it to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which ended World War II.
Thus, the author's question: was the subsequent atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki really necessary?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were effective political moves that helped Hirohito depose his military elite and surrender unconditionally.
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The United States had burned Tokyo to the ground and then dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan agreed to surrender on August 15, 1945, after U.S. planes dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Both claim to be able to build not only fission bombs like those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also more fearsome hydrogen bombs.
The U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 each generated explosions of more than 15 kilotons of TNT.
The atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed all that.
Mr Frank does a masterly job of documenting the impact that American bombing, prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had on Japan's industrial capacity and civilian morale.
Considering that he was comparing the tragedy to the dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, his statement is heavy in meaning.
In the end, the nuclear horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with the Soviet entry into the war, provided Hirohito with the cover he needed to accept surrender.
President Harry Truman authorized the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The wisdom of the decision not to try Hirohito has been debated almost as much as the pros and cons of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What did not happen as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the massive Allied (largely American) invasion of the Japanese home islands that was being actively planned.
Destinations in Thailand and Japan in August will explore events in the River Kwai area and the "Death Railway", and the official commemoration of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Indeed, less than a month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 100, 000 people and forcing Japan to surrender.
B-52 bombing of Vietnam or the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Britons are with the fire-bombing of Dresden or Frenchmen with the bloody war they fought to try to keep Algeria French.
In another passage Galeano argues that the threat of a nuclear Iran is an invention of the pro-American media and that the real nuclear threat comes from the Americans because they burned Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The ceremony was also attended by a grandson of former US President Harry Truman, who ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
The technology for making crude atomic weapons at least as destructive as the ones dropped sixty-three years ago, first on Hiroshima and subsequently on Nagasaki, is widely available.
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