Choosing to fight until death (and not surrendering) was a central belief in Japanese culture. ... Mass invasion would have caused casualties that may have surpassed the death toll at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... Due to Japan's cultural belief that surrendering was dishonorable and worse than death, Japan was expected to keep on fighting until the bitter end. ... Groves, to guarantee that the first testing of the atomic bomb would happen before Truman's meeting with Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam. After being told by Soviet intelligence of the successful A-bomb test, Stalin urged th...

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Nuclear Weapons in Asia Nuclear weapons are used for many different reasons. Some countries develop nuclear weapons and sell the information to other countries. Nuclear weapons can be used for a country to gain recognition. Still other countries use them to present a threat to another countr...

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Kennedy administration officials tried to negotiate a permanent ban on nuclear tests when he first became president. The Kennedy administration promoted several policy initiatives on the testing question both directly with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and at the sessions of the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests and its successor forum, the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee. ... Newly declassified documents show that in the months preceding Kennedy's death, White House emissaries engaged representatives of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Kennedy...

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Two-thirds of Hiroshima was destroyed and 155,200 people were killed by the first bomb, including deaths from radiation within one year (The Guinness Book of Records). Despite their massive death tolls, the decision to drop the bombs was made by Harry S.Truman. ... He believed he did the world a favor, by ending the war and preventing any more deaths. ... Japan's unresponsiveness to calls and warnings from the U.S., gave them a window of opportunity to use Japan's stubbornness and cruelty as an excuse to test the true abilities of the newly invented A-bombs. ... One of the reasons ...

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On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware of them. ... Women died very often of giving birth; this was because of the dirtiness of the hospitals, not knowing that dirt can cause infections, and can eventually result to death. ...

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On Joseph's way to power he went through a lot of difficult and testing times. ... By improving machinery and agriculture Stalin could fight off millions of deaths caused by famine. ... Stalin joined with the Grand Alliances and was ready to fight to his death. ...

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After Stalin's death Tito improved relations with the soviets, as well as many other countries. ... Tito's foreign policies were tested during the cold war. ... After his death, tensions between ethnic groups resurfaced, leading to the breakup of the federation. ...

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The initial reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam seemed logical and compelling to American leaders. Following its success in World War II, the United States faced the future with a sense of moral rectitude and material confidence. From Washington's perspective, the principal threat to U.S. securi...

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His blue eyes had a deceptively vacant look; he was often lost in though, his face on autopilot as his ind puzzled through data or research material for his current book ... a wife he loved and two children he doted on, a job that tested his intellect..." ... The death of his family and drinking, as many other people in Soviet Union do, made the person realistic enough to be believed in (pp. 58-9, Life in Russia). ...

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