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President Truman decided to use this new weapon to make Japan surrender.

The war in the Pacific was hard and the progression islands to islands of the US Army caused a lot of casualties.

Moreover, The Americans conceived that the Japanese soldiers devoted themselves to the Bushido, the code of the Samurais in which surrender in unthinkable. Yet, Japan has continuously sent peace feelers to seek a path to a peaceful resolution knowing that the war is unwinnable. Unconditional surrender, however, was the only settlement acceptable to the Americans.

The US headquarter thought the war could last another ten years costing at least a million American soldiers to invade Japan.

The choice of using the nuclear bomb was motivated by the will to end this war as quickly as possible. It also demonstrated the American military superiority to the Soviet Union, which became after the German surrender, the communist counterpart to the United States.

The first bombing on Hiroshima was not enough to make the Japan Emperor Hiro-Hito to surrender, so Truman decided to use a second bomb on Nagasaki.

Even with the emperor's calling to surrender, some Japanese soldiers decided to flee or even to commit the ritual suicide (Seppuku) rather than to surrender.

As a anectote, a Japanese soldier, Hiroo Onoda, had even stayed on a Philippine island, thinking the war was on during more than 30 years.

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