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Was it really necessary to drop the atomic bomb explain why or why not

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“No.

And it wasn't necessary either. Militarily Japan was finished (as the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that August showed). Further blockade and urban destruction would have produced a surrender in August or September at the latest, without the need for the costly anticipated invasion or the atomic bomb.

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