What was the importance of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 1

That's a very good question, this bombing was just a single bomb, not 300,000,000! The U.S hoped that the Japanese would be so horrified by the blast of the bomb that they would think that the U.S would bring all of Japan to the ground. This was not the only problem for the Japanese; the U.S forces based at Okinawa were already preparing to invade Japanese soil. Just two days after the Japanese surrendered. It was so close some U.S ships were already along the coast shelling the land. Anyway, the Japanese were so terrified that they surrendered.