World War II(1939–1945) was a global conflict that reshaped nations and claimed millions of lives. The Allied powers—United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and others—fought the Axis powers, led by Germany, Italy, and Japan. Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 sparked the war, but by August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, not Germany, the actual perpetrator.

This article contends that the US decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, while sparing Christian Germany, was driven by an Abrahamic worldview dividing humanity into believers and non-believers, with a mandate to convert, subjugate, or destroy the latter.

The war was largely an intra-Christian struggle, with Japan, rooted in Shinto and Buddhist traditions, as an outsider. The atomic bombings were not milita

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