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President harry Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima because he?​

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During World War II, the United States became the first—and only—country to drop an atomic bomb. Two planes dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki. The damage was immense: Between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand people died. Many more would die in the coming months from various injuries caused by the bombing.

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Truman did not seek to destroy Japanese culture or people; the goal for him was to destroy Japan's ability to make war so they would become weak. So, the idea was to drop the world's first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima and they did.

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