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NEWYORKER: Groupthink

The Navy sat on the news of the disaster, releasing it only after the announcement of Japan's surrender, hoping to minimize adverse publicity in the euphoria over the war's end.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

The American occupation of Japan for seven years after the country's surrender on Aug. 18, 1945 was the century's last exercise in Western colonialism.

CNN: Books: The Reinventing of Japan

Indeed, less than a month after the Trinity test, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 100, 000 people and forcing Japan to surrender.

NPR: Revisiting the Birth of the Bomb