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Why did president harry s. truman drop a atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki at the end in world war 2?

Why did president harry s. truman drop a atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki at the end in world war 2?
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Why did president harry s. truman drop a atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki at the end in world war 2?

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He wanted to avoid an American invasion of Japan

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The U.S. believed that if the atomic bomb could end the war, Soviet influence after the war would be restricted and domestically the tremendous cost of development would be justified.
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