I have been researching this subject afresh for my new book 140 Days to Hiroshima, and what still remains shocking is the number of casualties that were involved.
Who is right? The city of Hiroshima three months after the US bombing (Photo: US Army/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum/Getty) A catastrophe averted
They assert that the Soviet entry into the war on 9 August compelled the Japanese surrender, or maintain that Japan would have surrendered had US President Harry Truman simply guaranteed the preservation of the imperial system.
Revisionists claim that such projections were a fabrication to justify the bomb’s use.
