According to Stalin, the Soviet Army would get ready on August 8. It can be seen the date Soviet set was imperative for the United States. Also, on the Yalta conference and Potsdam conference, Soviet’s participation showed that Soviet had gradually become powerful or even threatened the position of America that Soviet could discuss international affairs, create or change treaties included treaty related to Japan and China with America and United Kingdom together. Therefore Truman’s decided to drop the atomic bomb before the Soviet participation and after the test of the bomb had succeed, in order to reduce Soviet’s right to speak and prevent Soviet to become leader in Far East and also help America to become the leader and control international peace progress in …show more content…
maritime power made them to become whacked already. In Triumph and Tragedy, Winston Churchill argued that “It would be a mistake to suppose that the fate of Japan was settled by the atomic bomb. Her defeat was certain before the first bomb fell and was brought about by overwhelming maritime power.” Apart from Winston Churchill, General Dwight D. Eisenhower also thought that dropping atomic bomb is unnecessary because he knew Japan were close the surrender under the U.S. maritime power. Furthermore, many places in Japan had already damaged such as Tokyo. Therefore, Japan would surrender finally even the America have not drop the