I had some suprisingly varied versions of this in school (also europe) a) to save lives b) the bombs were actually planned for use against berlin, but the nazi

I had some suprisingly varied versions of this in school (also europe) a) to save lives b) the bombs were actually planned for use against berlin, but the nazis already collapsed when they were ready c) because how else could you ever test these weapons in a realcase scenario d) to force a unconditional victory The truth is probably as often a mixture of multiple interests at different levels with different motivations