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America Had to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It is very easy to sit in the shade of the modern world—the world that the violent peace of 1945 created—and condemn the sacrifices that needed to be made to bring that world about.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later, dropped another one on Nagasaki.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.