to end the war
end WW2
Based on the information that he had, yes. Japan had refused to surrender, invasion of Japan would have cost several million lives, and it DID end the war.
Vice President of the United States.
Atomic not Atomis!
It didn't. Japan existed long before the atomic bomb
Ending the war with Japan without getting huge numbers of Allied service members killed.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ; another on Nagasaki, Japan, 3 days later.
Harry s. truman approved the dropping of an atomic bomb on japan.
The US dropped the atomic bomb onto Japan on August 1945.
The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
atomic bomb
Japan was negotiatin with the Soviet Union as the first atomic bomb was dropped.