The United States decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 1945 the American B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay, dropped the "Little Boy" uranium atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later a second bomb, made of plutonium and nicknamed "Fat Boy," was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a terrible land invasion. A timely end to the war would mean that no land invasion of Japan is necessary. Such an invasion would have been very costly in terms of not only American lives, but also in terms of Japanese lives. Ending the war quickly would return soldiers to their homes and allow Americans to begin a normal life again.
             However, some have come to think that Truman had either partially or entirely different reasons for bombing Japan. They believe that destroying two Japanese cities would accomplish several things. Most obviously, it wou
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