Sixty-five years ago today, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Potsdam, occupied Germany to decide and design the fate of the post-WWII world. More known as the conference on how to administer a defeated Nazi Germany, the last day of the conference also resulted to the issuance of the Potsdam Declaration which demanded the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Empire. The last line of the declaration was simply chilling. “The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.”
Two atomic bombs would later devastate the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, prompting even Albert Einstein to regret having taken part in its creation.
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