Letter

In response to Did the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 end the war?

Why two?

My question has always been “why two bombs?” Even if the bomb had been the clincher, surely the evidence from one city should have been enough for the Japanese high command?

Was it because some in the US wanted to try both a uranium and a plutonium bomb, and here was the opportunity?

— Geoff Taylor from Perth