I also strongly believe that the atomic bomb was dropped to show the Soviet Union the stenght of the U.S. as to deter any possible agression between the two. Remeber tensions mounted between the two after the war and for the next 50 years.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler