Why Did Truman Decide To Drop The Atomic Bomb

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On August 6, 1945 President Harry Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Harry Truman felt that is in us, the citizens of the United States to drop these Atomic bombs on Japan because he believed that if the Americans tried to invade Japan there would be heavy casualties on the U.S. side. Harry Truman then decided to drop a five ton bomb on Japan as a way to speed up the end of the war. After dropping the first bomb on Hiroshima Truman dropped one more bomb on Nagasaki, which in the end finally caused Japan to surrender. Personally I think that by Truman dropping the atomic bomb helped end the war mostly because it left the Japanese with no other choice but to surrender. During the final days

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