One of the difficulties in talking with Americans in particular about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that many of them have, at best, a half-remembered high-school version of that history in their head, and the subject is typically not covered well in high school.
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Hersey’s account did change the metric and symbolism of that utilitarianism, however, from a narrow patriotic nationalism (saved my grandad on a boat near Okinawa) to an all-inclusive humitarianism (lots more people on both sides would have died).
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