Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb?
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Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb?
U.S. President Decisions
After a brutal campaign across the Pacific Ocean that killed over 40,000 civilians, Japan still held on and prepared for a bloody invasion by US troops on their mainland. Thousands of miles away in New Mexico, a powerful new weapon was made ready and a president had to decide whether it was justified to use.
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View this answerI knew what I was doing when I stopped the war that would have killed a half a million youngsters on both sides if those bombs had not been dropped. I...
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