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exchrist At the time, it was top secret. Not one single person beyond the POTUS and his Chief of Staff knew about the President's secret intent to nuke Japan. The President (Truman I think..) knew that the USA would lose big time to Japan's army, so he took the coward's way out and nuked Japan to show how strong the USA was.
Keep in mind that Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor which started this whole thing, was an attack on a half-dozen empty Navy ships that were in dry dock at Pearl Harbor awaiting maintenance with nobody onboard. The US casualties that resulted were located in buildings that surrounded the dock area who's numbers were few.
That's all it took for Truman to decide unilaterally that the US would declare war on Japan and the first shot fired from the USA was in the form of two A-bombs dropped minutes apart onto Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Reckless is how America thinks, which is why everyone today in America is totally okay with what happened back then. The American mentality is beyond reckless, it's actually beyond totally fukked-up.
The US military only had two A-bombs built at the time of which were a certain variety that were fresh off the drawing board and untested, which by the way were designed by German nuclear scientists who defected from Germany and agreed to work for the US military in exchange for US citizenship during the time of Hitler.
Those bombs were designed by German Engineers, not American Engineers, because no such scientific talent existed in the USA at the time, nor do they exist to this day, even for the NASA space program from the 1960's forward.
Those nuclear bombs however, were originally designed in Germany to be used against the USA with Hitler's intent to annex America, with his first point of entry being the Port of New York.
Instead, the USA used those German-designed A-bombs on the Japanese who didn't know that Pearl Harbor was only a dry dock facility for the US Navy.
