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I am a military historian whose father was a World War II Marine in the South Pacific. So I am attuned to the atom bombing of Hiroshima of August 6, 1945. On this 75th anniversary of the bomb, the debate turns on whether the event was a military necessity.

As a boy, I saw pictures of the explosio...