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To "convince" Japan to surrender in WWII.
The United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction".
The U.S. would have invaded Japan, probably costing another hundred thousand U.S. lives.
== == It was an effort to convince Japan to surrender during WWII
This is a question that is clouded with mystery, released documents from Japanese officials show that Japan was willing to surrender after the USSR invaded japan in 1945 and that the bombings of Japan with Nuclear weapons did not convince the Japanese to surrender so they may have not been need to be dropped at all
The surrender of Japan to the US on the deck of the battleship Missouri.
Japan did NOT offer to surrender before the two atom bombs were dropped. It wasn't until AFTER the two bombs had been dropped and Russia's entrance into the war against Japan that Japan surrendered.
it forced japan to surrender to the united staes
They did but they had decided to surrender before the bombs. August 6 1945, US drops the first bomb. Meanwhile Japan was hoping for Russia to help with the procedure but Russia declared war against Japan and invaded Manchuria making a mess of Japan's service men there. Japan did know to surrender to the United States than surrender to Russia.
To show the power of the United States and cause fear to make japan surrender.
Japan signed the surrender document which officially ended World War 2
Japan Did surrender to the USA, and President Harry Truman, after two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, (and after Russia declared war on Japan). Japan did not want to surrender, because their samurai code said it was better to die instead of to surrender. It was after they were bombed with nuclear weapons (and after Russia attacked the Japanese forces in Manchuria), that Japan finally decided to surrender.