Why Did The United States Use The Atomic Bomb In The Cold War?

From the mid 1940’s through the mid 1960’s, the United States was in its first cold war with the Soviet Union. It was considered cold because there was no outright fighting. The U.S. had been fighting to rid the world of communism, but only brought the communist USSR and USA together to fight their common enemy, Germany in World War two. The United States made a deal with the USSR that once Germany surrendered, ninety days after that they would declare war on Japan. The US had developed a nuclear bomb that would eventually lead to be the winning weapon of world war two. Although it ended the war against Japan it sparked a new war with USSR. Which we now call the Cold War. Herken, the author of The WInning Weapon The Atomic Bomb In The Cold War 1945-1950, examines the United States on how they could have a nuclear war on their hands and what was done to avoid it. This title came from the early times after the war that the U.S has developed a winning weapon to give them the edge they needed.
To be safe, they had to let the Soviet Union know they had a new weapon but did not disclose just how extraordinary it truly was. At the Potsdam conference the big three met to discuss the final stages of the war. The Soviet Union had so much land and was a big topic discussed. As the meeting ended, Truman hinted the idea of a new weapon that would end the war and Stalin just nodded his head and hoped the U.S. made good use of the weapon. Little did the president know, Stalin already knew and was developing his own nuclear weapon. Kennan who was in Moscow sent the “Long Telegram” to Secretary of State James Byrne. Which basically said we could not trust the Soviets and that we needed a plan to contain the USSR. Kennan was also a Major role in Cold War