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Originally Posted by karl262
One of my all time favourite docs. Here is the clip where he mentions that:
I've always wondered why they didn't first drop a bomb on some uninhabited part of Japan as a demonstration/warning of their power and resolve.
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It was discussed. But it was decided it wouldn't be effective enough. They decided they had to show a willingness to use it, and that they could do it again to demonstrate they had more. The latter being a bluff, the Nagasaki bomb was the last one they had at the time.