Why did the Americans drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

Why did the Americans drop the Atomic Bomb? The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese people. To this day, people still speculate why President Truman made the decision to drop the first bomb on Hiroshima on the fateful early-morning of August 6th, a bomb which caused horrific deaths and appalling radiation sickness that would last for many years to come. It has been quoted that from only …

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