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To end WW2 as fast as possible and avoid getting impeached in 1946 when the war ended after an invasion of Japan costing about a million american lives and the news leaked that he had available a weapon in 1945 that could have ended the war then and he chose not to use it.

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He didn't. Harry S. Truman made the decision, and the Enola Gay (a B-29 Bomber Aircraft) dropped the bomb.

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Because Japan did not surrender with the first bomb.

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