What is the worst thing that has ever happened to humankind?
History is long and frequently awful, but a war that consumed 60 million people and added "Hiroshima," "Nagasaki" and "Auschwitz" to the world's vocabulary surely stands apart.
And suddenly it was over. Suddenly Japan was a democracy. Japan was free. Japan was no longer "feudal."
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