24. Brave New World (July - September 1945)

With Europe sifting through the rubble of a long and bitter war, the Japanese, true to their cultural heritage refused to surrender. The prospect of a protracted land campaign, resulting in the deaths of many more American military personnel, was too high a price to pay, leaving Truman to make the decision to end World War II swiftly, with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.