A review of the academic debate for and against the use of the bomb, and whether it was in fact the deciding factor in the Japanese surrender. Views presented do not necessarily represent my own.

The dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have traditionally been held to be the cause of the end of the Second World War in the Pacific, with the justification that the surrender of Japan saved more lives in the long term than the bombs themselves cost.