World history/WHME103/WWII impact/Atomic bomb

Reading

Atomic cloud over Nagasaki

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• Was it right for America to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

• How many people were killed by the nuclear bombs?

• How many people might have been killed by a conventional approach to winning the war?

Duncan Anderson, 'Nuclear Power: The End of the War Against Japan', BBC History, 17 February 2011.

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