As World War II dragged on in the Pacific without an end in sight, the Allied leaders met at Potsdam to discuss how they could bring this war to a close. The day before the Conference began, President Truman learned that American scientists had successfully tested an atomic weapon. It was the culmination of a top-secret, 6-year program known as the Manhattan Project, which Truman himself had only just become aware of. Wishing to bring the war to a swift end, American planes dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Finally, Japan surrendered. VJ Day was celebrated on August 14, 1945 in the United States. Truman's decision was widely supported by the American public in 1945, but was debated as more and more historical details became available. Most revisionist interpretations, however, are either counterfactual - that is impossible to prove, or they lack solid historical evidence to support their claims. What are Jaydn's thoughts? Was the U.S. justified to use the atomic bomb against Japan to end WWII? Jaydn is adamantly against the use of the atomic bombs used to end WWII. Even 77 years later with a great degree of hindsight and declassified information, Jaydn's opinion re: this event remains strongly opposed to the ue of nuclear weapons!