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  • To end the war quickly without an invasion
  • The US had already spent $2 billion dollars making them, if he did not use them Truman knew he would be raked over the coals in congress for wasting them
  • To save lives on both sides, if we invaded well over 90% of the Japanese population would die, either in battle or by their own hand
  • To keep the Soviets out of northern Japan
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