The bomb caused immense amounts of casualties while the unusual consequence of radiation resulted in many more deaths among the survivors. ... The amount of deaths caused by an invasion would have easily surpassed those of the atomic bombings. ... Roughly seven thousand American marines and sailors lost their lives, in addition there were twenty one thousand other American deaths. ... The Japanese would have fought until they all starved to death due to the blockade or until they had been bombed into nothingness. ... Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and...

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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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The end of the WW2, saw Russia and America emerging as the two strongest allied nations. However, even before the closing stages of the war, competition between these two nations was brewing, fueled by ambitions on both sides for world domination and the opposing ideals of communism and capitalism. ...

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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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