The choice by the US to drop atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 stays probably the most controversial moments in fashionable historical past. Did the atomic bombs pressure Japan’s give up within the Second World Conflict? Or is that this far too easy a story? Talking to Elinor Evans, historian Richard Overy reconsiders the function of Oppenheimer’s bombs, and the US firebombing that paved their manner, within the remaining weeks of the conflict.
Richard Overy is the creator of Rain of Spoil: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Give up of Japan (Allen Lane, 2025).
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