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Groves wanted to keep dropping them all over Japan.
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Dropping what? We only had 3. The first was the test in White sands, and then the next two to end the most destructive war the world had ever seen.
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The American public opinion polls showed that most Americans wanted to do the same.
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the same polls that said Dewey would become president?
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The demand for unconditional surrender was a relic from the Roosevelt administration, an appeasement to the Soviets. Based on this we killed all of those people???
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Actually, it was because Japan was a determined and dangerous enemy. Anything less than unconditional would have been inviting a disaster.
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The truth is that nobody in the Japanese government was certain it had been an atomic bomb, and for all they knew it could've been propaganda to make them surrender.
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The truth is nobody in the US government was certain Japan was going to surrender. It could've been propaganda to get us to ease up.
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