On February 18, 1967, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer died, at the age of 62. An extremely versatile and intellectually fertile scientist, Oppenheimer is best known for his scientific leadership of the Manhattan Project, during World War II, which led to the invention of the atom bomb. Though the bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 ended World War II once and for all, less than a decade...
- By Vittorio Antonio
- 18 Feb 2013
- 10:19PM
Victory over Japan did not depend on nuking two Japanese cities---most of Japan's cities were already firebombed to ashes. Japan was helpless militarily and was negotiating for surrender long before the WMDs were dropped on its civilian populations. It was Truman's intention to use the bombs as a warning to the USSR. The outstanding consequence of the Hiroshima and Nakasaki nuclear holocausts was the Cold War. Now we have perpetual war and the ever growing probability that we are headed for a world nuclear war.
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