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Why did President Harry S. Truman decided to hit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the two atomic bombs in 1945?

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Yes exactly what the other guy/girl said. It was like the Death Star.
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Step-by-step explanation:

Because he wanted to test what this bomb can do, not only that he did it as warning that they either quit this war or we are going to blow them up and force them to quit. It was a way at the time of demonstrating power against another country

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