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The Tokyo Firebombing of March 1945
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22:57 - 27:26 (04:29)

Historian Gary Wills discusses the power of the atomic bomb and what would have happened had Truman not used it. The firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 killed 100,000 people and vaporized 17 square miles of the capital.

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