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Originally Posted by lostalex

we tested them on our own soil before we ever dropped the bomb on japan. Technically the first country to ever be attacked with nuclear weapons was the US, not Japan.

Sorry, but a weapons test in a piece of wasteland or a desert with nobody around can not be seen as an attack. Two attacks on two cities can.

There is an argument that the real reason the bombs were dropped was to show the Russians that the US had this technology

The counter argument was that the Japanese mindset was such that they needed to get the emperor to order a surrender or else the war would drag on with more lives lost on both sides.

Also your view of WW2 takes no account of the work of Bletchley Park and the cracking of both the Enigma codes and the Tunni Codes.