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It was about dick-waving, but it was only just barely about the Japanese. The alliance with the USSR was known by all parties to be a partnership of convenience, between nations that were, at their heart, rivals. Both nations foresaw that the weak post-war Europe was going to allow for the rise of at most a couple superpowers, and each intended to be one of them.
The souls who were lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were enemies, despite being civilians. They were therefore expendable in the service of sending a message. Their death was meant to say, "Look what we have, and look what we're CRRRRRRAZY enough to do with it." And that message was sent directly to the soviets. You could say that the cold war started in Hiroshima.
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