President Truman dropped the atomic bomb because the Japanese were not cooperating and wouldn't surrender. Even after the allies declared that the Japanese must surrender the Japanese still refused. So in order to prevent any more American causalities and to end the war Truman dropped the atomic bomb. The bombings on Japan had many short term effects such as a mass number of deaths and causalities such as blindness and fractures. Also many factories were destroyed and the Japanese economy last billions of Yen and surrendered shortly after the bombs were dropped. The following pictures show the effects of the atomic bombs:
These atomic bombs ended the war in the Pacific because it was completely terrifying that a whole city could be destroyed by a bomb at one instance. Those in the specific were scared and did not know what to do so sent out the white flag.
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