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Originally posted by onetime2
You also have to remember that both Japan and Germany were working on atomic bombs during WWII. The time it took to negotiate/embargo them or demonstrate the bomb on a less populated area may have given them the necessary time to complete their own bombs.
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There's a lot of conflicting evidence on Germany, but most accounts seem to point to any effort they put in being very minimal. Of course the people in the US wouldn't have known that until after the war was over, and the intelligence that did exist convinced people that Germany was close (incorrectly). That's the only reason the bomb was developed when it was.
Japan was not working on a bomb - at least not seriously. They didn't have the talent or resources to complete it. Nobody at the time considered Japan a threat in this way.
Developing the bomb was done out of fear that someone else would do it first. Dropping it had nothing to do with that. Germany had already surrendurred.