The 6th of August 1945.

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The simple fact eludes a few, that the B-29 raids were fare more devastating.
The death toll from firebombing the population, who lived in timber houses, could (and occasionally did) exceed the atomic bomb death toll.

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I admire the Japanese for the way they picked themselves up (after the war), dusted themselves off, and got stuck in to it.
When I was a little kid, if anything had "made in Japan" on it, most people were reluctant to touch it, whereas nowadays, I just about won't buy stuff unless it HAS got "made in Japan" on it.
There is no doubt the two bombs changed the world forever... who knows how different it might have been

The US rebuilt the country as well as most of Europe. The thought was that getting people "things" through prosperity and capitalism would keep them happy and not fight against the US. The thought and plan was pretty successful.

There are also many historians who say that the Japanese were almost defeated anyways and that Truman dropping the bombs were as much a warning to Stalin, who killed 30+ million of his own people, that the US was THE next superpower, not the Soviet Union. That conflict ended just a few years ago.

I love the history channel...