Sort of, to convince the Japanese to surrender.
no only undamaged cities to show power of the Atomic bomb
To show the power of the United States and cause fear to make japan surrender.
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It was a hydrogen bomb - Jughead.
to wipe out cities like hiroshima to prove that Americans were better, and show that America had the nuclear power first.
He didn't, actually. It was Albert Einstein who brought the atomic bomb plans and blueprints to the United States from Germany.
He ordered the atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is how he showed the atomic bombs.
Even if it was not the purpose, it did and no one could do anything about it.
Estimates show that about 140,000 were killed in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki.
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945 heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, leading to the start of the Cold War. The Soviet Union saw the bomb as a threat to its own security and began its own nuclear weapon program, escalating the arms race and competition between the two superpowers.
To show that the atom bomb is just another typical danger that children can prepare for.
Because the Japanese would not surrender to the US. The US needed a show of power and the two atomic bombs were the solution. The US claimed they had more, to frighten the Japanese into surrendering, but they really didn't have any more.