(Repost from r/History) I have recently read up on the works of Gar Alperovitz and was wondering if there were any alternative views from historians that you guys would be able to tell me about!? I would especially love to find a historian who argues it was because of American Racism or to simply end the war in peace!
Thanks ahead guys!
The question of why the US dropped the atomic bomb is still a debated one amongst historians. The Alperovitz thesis (that they did it to scare the Soviets) is not generally held in high regard. A while back, I wrote up what seems to be the emerging consensus about the decision to use the bomb.