Did We Really Have to Nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Let’s have an honest debate.

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For many years, people have argued about whether the United States government was justified in dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in the closing stages of World War Two. About 140,000 people lost their lives as a direct result of the first atomic bomb being launched on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.