Sources Question: The Atomic Raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
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... otally useless to the Historian (because of the insight it gives us into the British thinking during the Cold War), but to answer the question, it is not useful for a study into the bombing because of it's inaccuracies and for that reason I would select Source E as the source most useful.5. Firstly and obviously, the accounts are written by people from different nations, this can cause the difference in their opinions in a variety of ways-- They may have had different sources to work from, the Russian may have been misinformed. The Communist government was notorious for misinforming it's people to keep them happy and satisfied. - They were simply giving the explanation which supports their countries the best- obviously Byrnes will protect his country's interests because he was the secretary of state at the time and he will do the patriotic thing.
But what is the most important reason is because these two countries were, at the time, engaged in the Cold war. This explains Nekrasov's willingness to put down the American's in their attempt to 'frighten other countries' and their responsibility of starting the nuclear arms race. The book th ...
