Quote Originally Posted by Gleber2
The bomb dropped on an uninhabited island near Japan would have ended the war I believe. There was no need for the USA to drop this bomb on Hiroshima or even less Nagasaki except to show that they could. Must be considered one of the biggest War Crimes ever.
They say that truman was left this expensive nuclear development program and had to justify it's existance using the threat of another okinawa if they invaded japan.