Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster
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The Fat Man Bomb on Nagasaki
While Hiroshima was entirely unnecessary, Nagasaki was even more so. The decision to seek peace had been made six weeks before Hiroshima. It's thought by some that it was fear of a full Soviet invasion on the Japanese mainland and eventual communist rule that drove the Japanese into the arms of the Americans.
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