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When Harry S. Truman grounded the success of the Manhattan Project, he knew he would be the one making the decision to discharge this terrible weapon, the atomic bombs. After four years American soldiers and civilians were distressed, yet the powerful Japanese army that consisted of two million soldiers that were refusing to give up their fight. Truman still deciding whether he should drop the bomb was the hardest decision and would be purely be a military decision. Before the decision was made the United States petitioned an allied demand of an unconditional surrender to the leadership of Japan. The Japanese army responded steadfast, rejecting the appealing surrender. The difficult life decision was finally made, and on August 6th, 1945 Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. Instantaneously 70,000 Japanese civilians were vaporized, an additional 100,000 ceased from burns and radiation sickness. Two days later on August 9th, 1945 a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. This disastrous attack killed 80,000 Japanese citizens, leading in a major surrender by Japan on August 14th,