I think the Atomic bombs influence is still somewhat limited. Not trying to troll or anything, just that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki isn't a completely unusual thing for Japan in terms of their history. Every 40 or 60 years you can cast iron guarantee Japan went through something tragic, flooding on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, quakes or explosion on the scale of Mt Saint Helen. It is the very nature of Japan to face volcano, earthquakes and tsunami every hundred years
What changed things really in WW2 is this time it was artificial, a human strategic response to Japanese attacks. What changed was in WW2 Japan allied itself with the German Reich and Japan had a terrible imperialist attitude, they were fascist against their Asian brothers and fascist against the West, they tried to cripple America's military.
The United States won a battle of strategic science and through artificial means created one of the worst catastrophes in Japanese history destroying thousands of military might and injuring and killing thousands of civilian men, women, children by dropping these new weapons on Japan.
This 'artificial' human made disaster was the profound effect. The Japanese today are leaders in science and robotics but they are also a traditional and spiritual people, they often eye technological advances with caution. Science and discovery of new power can help people and lead to many breakthroughs but it can also lead to destruction, this is what is reflected in their anime and manga and sometimes in the statements of their Buddhist and Shinto leaders.
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