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Describe what
Truman did before
giving the order to
use the atomic bomb.​

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Documents discovered fairly recently in the Truman library indicate that before giving the bomb order, he had concluded that the Japanese were about to ''fold up.'' Even more to the point, he believed that their collapse would be precipitated by Soviet entry into the war, set for mid-August.

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