For decades, Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States of America, will always be remembered as the man who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on two cities in Japan , Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The president takes action, a very important decision that any president would ever have to make. Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, is known for the decision to drop the bomb on Japan in August 1945. Over the years, some scientists talked to Harry Truman about a type of nuclear bomb that has a destructive rate of more than twenty thousand pounds of dynamite. This project was called the “Manhattan Project”. Truman consultants have been working on this project for a long time and have carried out many tests. Some tests worked but some didn't work either. By using this bomb in Japan, the war would have ended faster, but unfortunately, millions of Japanese would have been killed and others would have been seriously injured. Some of Truman's partners wanted to drop the bomb in the ocean, but Truman did not accept because the United States only had 2. atomic bombs and if dropped at o...