Even Churchill Thought Hiroshima Was Unnecessary
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On 6 August 1945, the US destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb. Three days later, Nagasaki was wiped out.
The two nuclear bombs killed over 100,000 men, women and children.
It was said that using the Bomb was the only way to avoid a long, drawn-out land invasion of Japan costing tens of thousands of lives.
This was not true. In mid-1945, there were two other possible ways of ending the war quickly, without using the Bomb or invading Japan.