<prompt> Qedela umusho olandelayo: Indawo yesithathu uHasegawa aye wacwaninga kuyo umlando wamazwe ngamazwe ohilela iSoviet Union, i - United States neJapane ekuqedeni iMpi YasePacific. Njengoba i - United States yayiphonsa amabhomu ayo e - athomu eHiroshima naseNagasaki ngo - August 1945, izigidi ezingu - 1,6  <response>: Amabutho aseSoviet ahlasela amabutho aseJapane ayehlala eMpumalanga Asia ngokungalindelekile. UHasegawa washicilela incwadi ethi, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan 2005. Ephikisa umbono ovamile wokuthi ukuqhuma kwamabhomu e-athomu eHiroshima naseNagasaki kwakuyisici esinqumayo esinqumweni saseJapane sokuzinikela nokuqeda iPacific, uHasegawa uphakamisa umbono wokuthi ukungena kweSoviet empini, ngokuphula iSivumelwano Sokungathathi Hlangothi, kwaba nendima ebaluleke kakhulu kunamabhomu e-athomu esinqumweni saseJapane sokuzinikela. Lowo mbono uphikisana nabagxeki bangaphambili bebhomu, njengoGar Alperovitz, owaphikisa ngokuthi inhloso eyisisekelo kaMongameli wase-US uHarry S. Truman kwakuwukukhombisa amandla ezempi yase-US njengento yokuvimbela izifiso zomholi waseSoviet uJoseph Stalin. Ngokwesazi-mlando sase-Australia uGeoffrey Jukes, uHasegawa ubonisa ngokungananazi ukuthi kwakuyimpi eyamenyezelwa iSoviet, hhayi amabhomu e-athomu, eyaphoqa amaJapane ukuba azinikele ngaphandle kwemibandela. Umbono wakhe uye wagxekwa. Ingxoxo enokulinganisela nenomoya ophakeme kakhulu yale ncwadi inikezwa engxoxweni etafuleni eliyindilinga le-H-Diplo noGar Alperovitz, uMichael Gordin, uDavid Holloway, uRichard Frank, noBaron Bernstein. UJames Maddox, uProfesa Wezomlando Emeritus ePennsylvania State University, nombhali wencwadi ethi Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later, wayengomunye wabahlaziyi abaqine kakhulu bale ncwadi. 