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Why might President Truman have made the decision to drop the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki?

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Dropping the atomic bombs was a way of demonstrating America's power. Also, the Japanese refused to surrender after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima so the President was following through on his threat.

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