Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A watan Agusta 1945, gwamnatin Japan ta yi watsi da bukatar mika wuya kamar yadda aka ayyana a cikin Yarjejeniyar Potsdam. Tare da goyon bayan mafi yawan mataimakansa, Truman ya amince da jadawalin tsare-tsaren sojoji don jefa bama-bamai na atomatik a biranen Japan na Hiroshima da Nagasaki. An kai wa Hiroshima bam a ranar 6 ga Agusta, kuma Nagasaki kwana uku bayan haka, ya kashe mutane 135,000; wasu 130,000 za su mutu daga ciwon radiation da kuma wasu cututtuka da suka shafi bam a cikin shekaru biyar masu zuwa. Japan ta amince ta mika wuya
a ranar 10 ga watan Agusta, a kan yanayin kawai cewa ba za a tilasta wa Sarkin Hirohito ya yi murabus ba; bayan wasu muhawara na ciki, gwamnatin Truman ta yarda da waɗannan sharuɗɗan mika wuya.