This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/historiansanswered by /u/HistAnsweredBot on 2023-09-03 12:18:45.

Original Title: How and when did the atomic bomb come to be seen as categorically different weapon and/or paradigm shift in warfare? I know that some believe that this occurred after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, e.g., Michael Gordin, but what’s the consensus and evidence?