Lecturer Tsuyoshi Hasegawa argues two significant reasons that Americans use to justify the use of the atomic bomb during World War II in the lecture hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center Friday evening. (Robbie Wroblewski

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s 2005 book, “Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan,” shook up the historical community upon its release, because the central argument he made was that the atomic bombs were not deciding factor for the Japanese to surrender. War with the Soviets was the deciding factor.

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