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title: "Why did President Truman agree to use the the atomic bomb?"  
description: "Why did President Truman agree to use the the atomic bomb?"  
author: "Ward ryan"  
published: 2018-10-23  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51047/why-did-president-truman-agree-to-use-the-the-atomic-bomb  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did President Truman agree to use the the atomic bomb? 

Why did [President Truman](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43115/why-do-you-think-president-truman-believed-that-poverty-and-suffering-created-conditions-in-which-communism-might-spread) agree to use the the [atomic](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/10927/objective-c-attributes-of-property-directive) bomb? \
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