President Truman stated that he needed to end the war and to collapse Japan's means to make war ever again.
To save American lives
Atomic not Atomis!
Vice President of the United States.
It was a tough call for the President but he reasoned that he could end the war faster and save the lives of many American service men. The deaths of the military there, helped in that decision.
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The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
Atomic not Atomis!
Vice President of the United States.
It was a tough call for the President but he reasoned that he could end the war faster and save the lives of many American service men. The deaths of the military there, helped in that decision.
end WW2
to end the war
President Truman got the order to use them against Japan.
The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
President Truman had multiple reasons for ordering the nuclear strikes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The primary reason was to quickly end the war through overwhelming force of these weapons thus avoiding the need for potentially hundreds of thousands of American casualties from invasion into the Japanese home islands.
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Harry Truman
The American President, Harry Truman, made the decision to drop atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
President Truman.