. Most of all it had cost largeamounts of money and the project workers feared being investigated by the postwarCongress if it was discovered that funding had gone to a secret project with nothing toshow for it. The alternative was an all out invasion of Japan with continued bombing raids. InJuly 1945, an invasion was being planned by all of the allies. The plan included the UnitedState's Navy whose role was to impose a blockade on Japan to try to strangle themeconomically into surrender. Then on July 16 the A-bomb was successfully tested. Truman then made his decision to use it unless Japan surrendered. On July 26 Truman,Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek issued an ultimatum demanding the unconditionalsurrender of Japan. Japan chose not to surrender at that time. Feelings of a Britishscientist P.M.S. Blackett were a bit different. He wrote a book titled Fear, War, and theBomb, in which he said that the United States wanted to end the war with Japan prior toRussia's entrance. Blackett felt that the USA wanted all of the credit for defeating Japanand that we were hoping to deter Russia from invading other lands in an effort to suppressCommunism. He feels that the dropping of the bomb was 'the first major operation of thecold diplomatic war with Russia. (www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/20th_Century/World_War_II/Atomic_Bomb_The/) Also an American historian,Gar Alperovitz, wrote a book titled Atomic Diplomacy. His book contains a diary entryfrom 28 July 1945 by U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal that describes Secretaryof State James F. Byrnes as 'most anxious to get the Japanese affair over with before theRussians got in'. (www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/ History/20th_Century/WorldWar_II/Atomic_Bomb/The/) Also Byrnes' assistant Secretary of State, Walter Brown, hasa diary entry that suggests that Truman and Byrnes saw the bomb as a way to reduceSoviet political influence on Asia, particularly China. This was basic...
