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On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing a combined total of over 200,000 lives. It was not long before people began to question President Truman’s decision ....

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... option that would force Japan to surrender. Understanding the decisions and the outcomes that take place during this time of war will better our knowledge and decision-making in the future. Over a century ago the first atomic bomb was created in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was created by a top-secret operation code named the Manhattan Project. Three weeks after the first test of the atomic bomb President Truman made the decision at a war time conference, in Potsdam Germany, to use the atomic bomb on Japan. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 destroying the city and killing and estimated total of 70,000 noncombatan ...