After crippling the Japanese with American high explosives, incendiary bombs, and raids. The Japanese empire was crumbling. "...atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were on the verge of collapse." The American "island-hopping" had drained Japan of much of its natural resources, preventing them from carrying the war on much longer. When the question of whether the

American military had an invasion plan for Japan ready even before the atomic bomb was tested. "The strategic plans of our armed forces for the defeat of Japan, as they stood in July, had been prepared without reliance upon the atomic bomb, which had not yet been tested in New Mexico. The Americans were planning an intensified sea and air blockade with intensified air bombing. The down side of the invasion meant serious casualties.

World War II, after four years of fighting around the world, came to a sudden end with two events: dropping of the atomic bombs first on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki. The dropping of the deadliest weapon ever known to mankind was to end the war without many casualties, the dropping itself has not gone without debate. It is obvious that the Atomic bomb was dropped more for a diplomatic reason to "contain" communism than the military reason of ending the war.

The first atom

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