The prevention of having to invade and conquer mainland Japan, which by all estimates would have an enormous cost in US casualties and prolong the war with many months, if not with years.
The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
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.
Atomic not Atomis!
Truman didnt want Stalin to get any peace, and was basically telling him to back off
The same day they were ready Truman had the decision. The people were ok with it.
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.
Atomic not Atomis!
Truman didnt want Stalin to get any peace, and was basically telling him to back off
President Harry Truman
end WW2
President Harry S. Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan to end WW II
The American President, Harry Truman, made the decision to drop atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Based on the information that he had, yes. Japan had refused to surrender, invasion of Japan would have cost several million lives, and it DID end the war.
Truman
to end the war