For 70 years, historians have debated what would have happened had the United States not dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Would the Japanese regime, seeing that it was defeated, have surrendered anyway? Would an American land invasion have been necessary? Would more or fewer people have died in the end? And, without the suffering of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, would the Americans and the Soviets have underestimated the power of these weapons and stumbled into a nuclear war that would have killed tens of millions?
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