Did the U.S. Need to Drop a Second Atomic Bomb on Japan?

Sunday marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki—one of the last significant acts of World War Two and the second and last nuclear attack in history.
The Nagasaki bomb—codenamed "Fat Man"—killed somewhere between 39,000 and 80,000 people, around half of them within 24 hours of the detonation on August 9, 1945. The center of the port city was raised to the ground, with only a handful of buildings left standing.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together killed somewhere between 129,000 and 226,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians. Then, it was argued that the bombs were the only way to defeat the forces of Imperial Japan, which were fighting tooth and nail for every inch of Japanese territory against the Allies.
It was believed that the alternative was a full invasion of the Japanese home islands. Military planners believed that such an operation would result in up to 1 million American casualties alone, before even counting Allied casualties and those of Japanese troops and civilians.
A hastier end to the war also saved lives across Asia where fighting was ongoing. In China, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and elsewhere, Japanese troops were still battling advancing allied and local forces. The bombs, proponents argued, saved many lives.
This has remained the dominant view through most of the post-war era, even with the shifting debate on whether the bombings constituted war crimes. Japan surrendered on August 15 and signed the surrender agreement three weeks after the Nagasaki bomb, ending almost a decade of global conflict that claimed some 73 million lives.
But not everyone agrees that the bombs were necessary. Miyako Taguchi is the daughter of two atomic bomb survivors—known as hibakusha—who lived in Nagasaki at the end of the war. Now living in New York, she told Newsweek that she grew up some 30 minutes walk from ground zero.

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Did the U.S. Need to Drop a Second Atomic Bomb on Japan?

Did the U.S. Need to Drop a Second Atomic Bomb on Japan?

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