US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nu...

‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington's Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’

  • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Their primary motivations were to have a live weapons test and to intimidate the Soviet Union

    and to deny the USSR their due in treaty by claiming that they didn't help defeat Japan/ preventing them from doing another gosh darn destroying Nazi Germany and hogging more credit