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Why did the US decide to drop nuclear bombs on japan instead of continuing to fight them?
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∙ 12y ago
- #1: Truman knew he would almost certainly have been impeached and convicted when the war finally ended in late 1946 as a traitor for having available a weapon that had cost over $2,000,000,000 to develop that could have shortened the war by more than a year and saved over 1,000,000 US soldier's lives and never using it. He simply had no choice politically or militarily.
- The US public was getting impatient to see the war end.
- etc.
If necessary we had the production schedule and facilities operating to drop not just the 2 nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan, but a total of 23 nuclear bombs could have been dropped on Japan in 1945 alone and probably several times that in 1946 if they didn't surrender.
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