Why did President Harry S. Truman decide to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki at the end of World War II?

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Why did President Harry S. Truman decide to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki at the end of World War II?

He wanted to draw out the war on Japan

He wanted to avoid an American invasion of the Japanese mainland

He wanted to wait for the Soviets to join the war

He wanted Germany to surrender unconditionally

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- He wanted to avoid an American invasion of the Japanese mainland

President Truman believed that dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki would force Japan to surrender quickly and avoid the need for a costly American invasion of the Japanese mainland, which would have resulted in significant casualties on both sides.