User blog comment:Lord Andrew Mallace/Hiroshima was bombed/@comment-72.95.128.249-20120402113325/@comment-3242795-20120404112344

-facepalm-

Um, not at all. After the battle of Okinawa, and several other battles, we were preparing for an invasion of the Japanese home islands. However, scientists had recently, and secretly, harnessed the power of the atomic bomb, and were willing to put it to use. With the intense destruction of the bomb, they prayed it would end the war in one final sweep. Truman signed because he didn't want his boys dying on the beaches, and agreed it would end the war. So, on 6 August, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy on Hiroshima, and on 9 August, 1945, the Bockscar delivered the bomb on Nagasaki. So, you were a little off there.