This article gives a on the bombing than people are traditionally used to. The one thing I will say in disagreement with this piece is that it was not about proving to the Soviets that the U.S. should have economic dominance. The other Allied nations had seen and heard what Stalin's forces had done in eastern Europe and were aware of the brutal Russian dictatorship. Churchill had sent British troops to Greece to prevent Stalin from taking that over. The States needed to prove to the Russians, using Japan that the Russians should not think of taking over Japan, ostensibly for the anti-Axis cause and extending the Iron Curtain there, too.
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