The reasons have been debated since the bombings.
Apologists say dropping the bombs saved lives and hastened the end of the war with Japan.
The most credible reason is political. The Japanese were in retreat and the end was inevitable. Knowing there would be political bargaining at the end of the war, the bombs were dropped to show the USSR that the US had atomic weapons.
The drop of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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the bombs dropped on hiroshima august 6 and on nagasaki august 8
No, the nuclear bombs which were dropped on Japan, were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did work to have the Japanese surrender without appeasment.