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Once the idea of dropping the bomb was agreed upon, with a view to 'save lives' it was weighed whether the bomb should be exploded on a desert island. Against this argument were two factors. First, it was unlikely to convince the skeptical Japanese about the destructive power of the bomb; and two, there was a real fear that if forewarned, Japan would rush Allied prisoners of war to the island concerned. Truman's theory was that any forewarning would rob the bomb of its shock effect. The test was carried out in mid-July. Truman was attending the

Potsdam Conference with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. On 15th July, 1945, Truman got a terse telegram: 'Operated on this morning. Diagnosis not yet complete?

Next day another telegram came saying that 'the boy I husky.?

Truman later said: 'It was not an easy decision to make. But I had no qualms if in the long run millions of lives were saved. And so the decision was made'. Churchill supported Truman and felt it would give the proud Japanese a face-saving excuse which in the long run would prevent 'indefinite butchery'. Churchill went so far as to call this new weapon 'a miracle of deliverance'. Truman ordered that this new weapon was not to be dropped on Japan before he left Potsdam and that it could be dropped any time after August 3rd. Truman was given four targets from which he could choose two. The targets were the cities of Hiroshima, Kokura, Nigata and Nagasaki. Truman chose Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Truman was against giving any prior information about atomic bombs to Japan because he felt that

A) Japan would vacate all those cities

B) Japan would attack even before the dropping of the bomb

C) Such a warning would weaken the shock effect of the bomb

D) The enemy would make the military island fortification unbreakable

E) None of these