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Did the US nuke Japan as a warning to the Soviets?

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wildbill83 · 36-40, M
The B29 was the first real warning to the Soviet Union, it was the first true strategic bomber; and it wasn't until they captured a crashed/ditched one and reverse engineered it to produce the TU-4 that they had anything remotely capable of long range bombardment