Why Did the United States Drop an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

question 69

Multiple Choice

Why did the United States drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

• A) The invasion of Japan was certain to cost as many as 250,000 American lives.
• B) There was no indication that Japan was at all willing to surrender.
• C) With the Soviet Union out of the war, the United States was to face the defeat of Japan on its own.
• D) Since the United States had spent years and millions of dollars developing the weapon, it was going to use it in the war.
• E) Hiroshima was a central site of weapons production in the Japanese empire.

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