USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Looking back on these events some time later, Lieutenant General Leslie R Groves, former director of the ‘Manhattan Project’ that had developed the first A-bomb, commented: “The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II.

Detailed explanation-2: -Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union’s declaration of war against Japan. The Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender on 2 September, effectively ending the war. Manhattan Project: United Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-3: -By the end of the war, Japan’s cities were destroyed, its stockpiles exhausted, and its industrial capacity gutted. The government stood without prestige or respect. An alarming shortage of food and rising inflation threatened what remained of national strength.

Detailed explanation-4: -Official A-Bomb Justification: Save US Lives According to Truman and others in his administration, the use of the atomic bomb was intended to cut the war in the Pacific short, avoiding a U.S. invasion of Japan and saving hundreds of thousands of American lives.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was the deployment of a new and terrible weapon, the atomic bomb, which forced the Japanese into a surrender that they had vowed never to accept. Harry Truman would go on to officially name September 2, 1945, V-J Day, the day the Japanese signed the official surrender aboard the USS Missouri.