The Bombing Of The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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The origins of the CCW are usually said to lie in the tension between the Soviet Union and its allies (France, Great Britain and the United States). Events following the WWII and even the Russian revolution of 1917, lay ground work for the tensions between the Soviet Union, the west-European countries and the United States. But most of the historians give weight to the dropping on the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the sole igniter of the CCW. When Germany collapsed in spring 1945, it became the igniter of the CCW. “The Russians, for example, sincerely feared that the West was planning a separate surrender of the German armies in Italy in a way which would release troops for Hitler's eastern front, as they subsequently feared that the Nazis might succeed in surrendering Berlin to the West. This was the context in which the atomic bomb now appeared.” The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and its relationship to the breakdown of the allied coalition has evoked enormous controversy among historians. In one of the most important revisionist words of the 1960s, Gar Alpe...

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