USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Truman did not seek to destroy Japanese culture or people; the goal was to destroy Japan’s ability to make war. So, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Stimson advised Truman that the bomb might be useful in intimidating Soviet leader Joseph Stalin into curtailing post-war communist expansion into Eastern Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -He spoke about it both privately and publicly, his grandson said, expressing that he “made the decision to end the war and save American lives, save Japanese lives, but he always regretted the loss of life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “The loss of women and children, as he put it.”