In this fashion, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan can be seen as the first shot of the Cold War. He even re-enacted the bombing in a B-29 during a 1976 Texas air show and denounced the Smithsonian’s exhibition of the actual plane when it debuted because of the exhibition’s focus on the suffering of the Japanese people and not the brutality of the Japanese military. atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. He proudly named his airplane Enola Gay after his beloved mother. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S. Russian armies were occupying most of Eastern Europe. The meeting was marked by recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Truman, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee) ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. READ MORE: The Hiroshima Bombing Didn't Just End WWII-It Kick-Started the Cold Warīy August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective.
