Why did President Truman choose to drop an atomic bomb on Japan instead of ordering a land invasion?
A) Japan's geography would not allow a land invasion.
B) A land invasion would result in too many casualties.
C) American forces were too depleted for a land invasion.
D) It was not possible to adequately supply an invasion force.

B) A land invasion would result in too many casualties.

Explanation:

Japanese army was so tenacious that a land invasion would have cost way too many American lives

(mostly Marines and Army soldiers)

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