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[–] F6F_Hellcat 2 points (+2|-0)

It was the biggest fuck you in world history.

After Hiroshima America asked for Japan's unconditional surrender. Japan went silent, so America says, OK, have another one.

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 2 points (+2|-0) Edited

There's certainly still healthy debate surrounding the necessity to drop the second nuke. Granted, a lot of it is from armchair historians. But there's a lot of different possibilities for the their reasoning, Boukert brings up a common one in response to your comment. It may have even been a mistranslated message.

Unfortunately there's a lot of noise in that search, which makes it difficult to really determine anything for certain.

[–] Boukert [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Some say the second was indirectly meant to show the soviets they had more then 1 bomb