Atomic not Atomis!
Vice President of the United States.
It was a tough call for the President but he reasoned that he could end the war faster and save the lives of many American service men. The deaths of the military there, helped in that decision.
end WW2
The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
Atomic not Atomis!
Vice President of the United States.
It was a tough call for the President but he reasoned that he could end the war faster and save the lives of many American service men. The deaths of the military there, helped in that decision.
end WW2
to end the war
President Truman's chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan was to expedite the end of World War II and minimize American casualties. He believed that demonstrating the bomb's destructive power would compel Japan to surrender unconditionally, thereby avoiding a prolonged and costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. Additionally, the use of the bomb was seen as a way to assert U.S. dominance in post-war geopolitics, particularly in relation to the Soviet Union.
President Truman got the order to use them against Japan.
The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
President Truman had multiple reasons for ordering the nuclear strikes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The primary reason was to quickly end the war through overwhelming force of these weapons thus avoiding the need for potentially hundreds of thousands of American casualties from invasion into the Japanese home islands.
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Harry Truman
President Harry S. Truman .