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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(And to be sure, not EVERYONE saw it this way. Some did not. But most of the high-level folks involved — Groves, Oppenheimer, Bush, Byrnes, Stimson, Truman, Churchill — did.)
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And — in fact — they thought it was VERY IMPORTANT to convince the Japanese it was something different, too. Because they wanted it to have an effect. The people who argued it was no big deal were the people who thought they were getting overlooked as a result — e.g., the USAAF.
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