Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. ... Never before had any nation almost completely incinerated an opposing nation, and never before had the United States fully showed the world the extent of its abilities. ... [It] looked like a pot of bubbling tar. [ ] The war was over.... ... Shortly after, on August 14, 1945, Japan finally surrendered, and World War II came to a close. ... He wrote in his diary: We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. ...

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More importantly, it was a major center for the manufacture of war materials before and during World War II. ... It is almost as if they had invented a world of fantasy. But this world of fantasy was really a world of deception. ... Even the radio broadcasters declared that Japan was winning the war. But the Japanese government lived in a world of reality where an attack by the US was very possible. ...

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