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−	~~President Truman and the Allied Powers issued the~~ Potsdam Proclamation on July 25, 1945 to the Japanese government warning of "prompt and utter destruction" if it did not surrender immediately. Afterwards, Truman dropped 27 million leaflets over Japanese cities with the same warning. The Japanese ignored them and showed no interest in surrendering. If the Japanese had shown any interest in ending the war, then the atomic bomb would not have been dropped. But the Japanese wanted to keep fighting.	+	#redirect[[Potsdam Declaration]]