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What did Stimson support at the end of World War II?

  • The division of Germany

  • The Manhattan Project

  • Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • The Morgenthau Plan

Answer

Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, supported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. He believed that the bombs would bring an end to the war quickly and with fewer casualties than a land invasion of Japan would have caused.
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