If the fighting had continued into 1946 or ‘47, and had the American public found out we had a weapon that would have ended the war, I believe President Truman would have faced impeachment.
And these bombs were tame popgun affairs compared to modern thermonuclear bombs. They were dropped upon what was documented to be military support operations, which nestled among dense urban population centers. The actual damage zone was less than the extent of our modern L. A. International Airport.
HST thinks he would have, and he thought they would have been right to do so.
“If the fighting had continued into 1946 or ‘47, and had the American public found out we had a weapon that would have ended the war, I believe President Truman would have faced impeachment.”
There was a school of thought that the atomic bombs should have been saved to use tactically against Japanese forces during the upcoming invasion, mostly on the Kanto Plain and Tokyo.
Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giancreco