On this date in 1945

[hunter]

32. I'm well read on this subject. I simply have a different take on history.

"Revisionist," you might say... as all historical accounts are, the moment any historian begins to write.

The questions asked in the original post's video are not illuminating or productive in my not-so-humble and likes-to-talk opinion. I ask different questions.

The historical consensus, especially the popular consensus, developed after-the-fact in the U.S.A., was that the bomb "saved lives." That's the perspective of this video with its fancy animated pie charts and dramatic music.

But the motivations of the individuals and institutions involved in the construction, deployment, and the use of these bombs weren't so simple as that.

It's an intense subject.

We built the capacity to make many bombs, we dropped two bombs on Japan, Japan surrendered. That's the historical truth.

The "Cold War" (which wasn't so cold) had already started before World War II ended.