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  • 16-05-2017
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Why did President Harry Truman decide to hit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with two atomic bombs in 1945?

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ray73 ray73
  • 16-05-2017
He believed that if he attacked first he would save thousands of American lives if he scared the Japanese into surrendering
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mmcknight133
mmcknight133 mmcknight133
  • 16-05-2017
He wanted the Japanese to surrender unconditionally. He dropped 2 because he thought that if he only dropped 1 bomb psychologically the Japanese would not surrender. So 2 would make them think that we have more and will keep dropping them.
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