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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
I don't know. The point is that the a-bomb's didn't 'have to be dropped' to defeat the Japanese. That's an invented argument... the real reason was to show the Russians (and the world) that they had it and were willing to use it. Dropping the A-bomb did not defeat the Japanese, the American Army, Navy, and Marines defeated the Japanese.
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Mutual Assured Destruction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutuall...ed_destruction
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.[1] It is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use of the very same weapons. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium, in which both sides are attempting to avoid their worst possible outcome—nuclear annihilation.