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Answer Once wasn't enough. They Japanese did not surrender. So, the US dropped another bomb. Interestingly, the US prepared at least two atomic bombs. I don't know if they constructed any more or not. The two bombs were of different type of design so one was a large round sphere---called Fat Boy.

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Dropped atomic bombs on 2 cities (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) forcing Japan to acknowledge defeat, surrender, and end the war.

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The reason why the US bombed Japan is that the US was at war with Japan as a result of the Japanese attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Main reason was that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the US responded by engaging warfare with the Japanese.

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Because the Japenese bombed Pearl Harbor.

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