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1923 TOKYO Atomic Decisions Shape End of War — Part One Evan Thomas, author of Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, discusses American wartime decision-makers such as Secretary of War Henry Stimson. Facing Japan’s ongoing refusal to surrender, officials debated target selection, ethical qualms over firebombing, and nuclear weapon deployment, while Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo navigated deadly military pressures within Japan’s government. (1)
