Why we dropped the big one

The cover story of the new issue of the Weekly Standard is by Richard Frank, the author of an important popular history of the end of the Pacific War, among other works. On tbe occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific, Frank retells the story with the compelling updates necessary to understand why we dropped the bomb: “Why Truman dropped the bomb.”

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