President Truman spent months deciding whether or not to use the atom bombs. When it became clear the Japanese leaders were not going to surrender he chose to save millions of lives vs. the hundreds of thousands that would die in the devastation of the atom bomb. It was estimated over a million lives would have been killed had the Americans and others invaded Japan. Therefore he hoped, as well as many others, the atomic bomb would finally motivate the Japanese populous to demand the end of the war.
President Truman gave the order to drop an atomic bomb on Japan during World War II. He was the first and only U.S. President to order the use of an atomic bomb as a military weapon.
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bomb Japan or invade it
No one was president of Japan. They had an emperor . Truman was US president.
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That was President Truman's call.
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