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Why US used a nuclear bomb?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The US used the atomic bomb against Japan because in the Battle of Midway (a small island in the Pacific that was controlled by the Japanese in WW11) we lost 3,000 American lives. The Japanese had many more islands like Midway under there control. If we had continued to fight Japan by taking each individual island (island hopping) American loss of life would have been substantial, therefore Truman made the very hard decision to launch the atomic bomb on Hiroshama and Nagasaki. Which forced the Japanese to surrender.

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