ABSTRACT
Japan, a former ally of Germany, still carried on military operations even after Germany had surrendered. The atomic explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in its capitulation, and also demonstrated how atomic weapons can be manipulated by politicians. Academician A . D . Sakharov wrote in his memoirs [31]: "It was the irony of fate that in 1945, Teller and Szillard recommended just a demonstration of the atomic bomb rather than its military use, whereas Oppenheimer reasoned that this problem should be left to the military and politicians for solution (Teller recalls that he was too easy to change his mind)." Subsequently, the attitude of the American creators of nuclear weapons to the use of their creation changed to the opposite.
