Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - Akụkụ nke atọ nke nnyocha Hasegawa mere bụ akụkọ ihe mere eme mba ụwa nke metụtara Soviet Union, United States, na Japan na ịkwụsị Agha Pacific. Mgbe United States tụrụ bọmbụ atọm na Hiroshima na Nagasaki n'August 1945, nde ndị agha Soviet 1.6
malitere mwakpo mberede megide ndị agha Japan ndị nọ n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ Asia. Hasegawa bipụtara akwụkwọ, "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan" (2005). N'ịgbagha echiche a nabatara nke ọma na bọmbụ atọm na Hiroshima na Nagasaki bụ ihe kachasị ekpebi mkpebi Japan ịhapụ ịhapụ na ịkwụsị Pacific, Hasegawa na-ekwupụta echiche na ntinye Soviet n'agha ahụ, site na imebi nkwekọrịta nke nnọpụiche, rụrụ ọrụ dị mkpa karịa bọmbụ atọm na mkpebi Japan ịhapụ. Echiche ahụ dị iche na ndị nkatọ mbụ nke bọmbụ ahụ, dị ka Gar Alperovitz, bụ onye rụrụ ụka na ebumnuche bụ isi nke Onye isi ala US Harry S. Truman bụ igosipụta ike nke ndị agha US dị ka ihe na-egbochi ebumnuche nke onye ndu Soviet Joseph Stalin. Dị ka ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme bụ́ onye Australia bụ́ Geoffrey Jukes si kwuo, "[Hasegawa] na-egosi n'ụzọ doro anya na ọ bụ nkwupụta agha nke Soviet, ọ bụghị bọmbụ atọm, mere ka ndị Japan chịlie aka elu n'enweghị ihe mgbochi". A katọwo echiche ya. A na-atụle akwụkwọ a n'ụzọ ziri ezi na n'ụzọ dị nro na mkparịta ụka okpokoro H-Diplo na Gar Alperovitz, Michael Gordin, David Holloway, Richard Frank, na Baron Bernstein. James Maddox, Prọfesọ nke Akụkọ ihe mere eme Emeritus na Mahadum Pennsylvania State, na onye edemede nke "Ngwá Agha maka Mmeri: Mkpebi Hiroshima Afọ Iri Ise Mgbe E mesịrị", bụ otu n'ime ndị nkatọ kachasị mma nke akwụkwọ ahụ.