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In Churchill's History of WW II he explains the reasons. I don't remember all the reasons but one of them was that they were (of course) not 100% certain that t
by erfgh 8y ago
In Churchill's History of WW II he explains the reasons. I don't remember all the reasons but one of them was that they were (of course) not 100% certain that the bomb will work so they couldn't get the whole world in a "watch this!" stance only for the bomb to fail.
- erfgh 8y agoAlso, they had only two bombs so if one failed it would be very possible that the other one would fail as well (or even that one strike would not be enough for Japan to surrender). In this case an invasion of Japan would be inevitable, resulting in many millions dead.