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1945 TOKYO Final Atomic Strikes Force Japanese Surrender — Part Two Evan Thomas, author of Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, details the tense final weeks surrounding the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. President Truman, Secretary Stimson, and Allied leaders wrestled with Soviet entry into the war and postwar diplomacy shaped at Potsdam. In Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito intervened against fanatical military coup plotters to broadcast Japan’s surrender. (2)
