"Revisiting Hiroshima: Debating the 'Demonstration' Bomb and Lessons Learned"

TL;DR
The question of whether the US could have ended World War II by demonstrating the power of atomic bombs rather than dropping them on Japanese cities is explored in the movie "Oppenheimer." While the idea of a demonstration is briefly mentioned, the full story is more complex and has implications for the current spread of nuclear weapons.
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- Before Hiroshima Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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- 78 years since Hiroshima – lessons of unnecessary mass destruction Yahoo News
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