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While the deployment of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains the subject of intense historical debate, one aspect of these devastating attacks is not disputed: their use changed the course of world history. The dropping of the two bombs demonstrated to all observers—particularly the Soviet Union (USSR)—that atomic weapons possessed the capacity not only to alter the course of a war, but potentially to end one entirely.