A sub-committee consisting of scientists involved in the bomb project reported on this question on J(Document A).
Among other things, this committee considered whether and how the atomic bomb should be used.
Robert Oppenheimer, the two who led the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. The Interim Committee was chaired by Brigadier General Leslie Groves and J. In May of 1945, Secretary of War Stimson set up a committee, the Interim Committee, to consider issues arising from the development of usable nuclear energy. The experience of the invasion of Normandy Jalso informed decision making about the use of the atomic bomb (Document B). Continued fighting in the Pacific (Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945 Okinawa, April-June 1945 and ongoing fighting in the Philippines) led to mounting American casualties. Intense bombing of Japan (on March 9-10, 1945, for example, bombs leveled nearly 16 square miles of Tokyo and killed 90,000 Japanese) had not moved Japan to surrender. Allied military leaders believed invasion was the only way to force the unconditional surrender for which Allied policy called (Document C). After Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, the war continued in the Pacific, as did planning for the invasion of Japan.
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