I have had the opportunity to visit Hiroshima and lived in the US where I had the chance to study under professor William Perry former Secretary of Defense and

I have had the opportunity to visit Hiroshima and lived in the US where I had the chance to study under professor William Perry former Secretary of Defense and responsible for many post war research. The perspective and official version that Americans have is that dropping the bomb was the right thing to do and only way to finish the war in the Pacific. The history is written by the winners simple fact to always keep in mind. This is clearly a misunderstanding of World War 2. In Europe after England and France lost their hegemony as empires, it became a race between USSR and US for world domination. The Red Army after controlling Germany were on their way to Japan, and Japanese were really afraid of it. There was a previous dispute over Kamchatka peninsula and other territories that Russians would want to claim back. US already defeated Japan in the Pacific and most of Japan was already destroyed. US sent the bomb to send a message to the World and USSR: we have this weapon and we will use it. It was in their best interest to control a Russia-free Japan than get into the same mess as in Germany.