1. War World II and the Atomic Bomb
August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. ... Truman had given Japan an opportunity to surrender, warning them of complete destruction, but the ultimatum that he sent was ignored and the Japanese government ignored it and faced, "utter devastation," (HIST, 426). ... This lead to the inevitable surrendering of Japan. ... There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but ...
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