The main reason President Harry Truman did not realize that the Japanese government was interested in negotiating a peace settlement just before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima is ________

A) the Japanese did not respond to the Potsdam Declaration
B) the Japanese sent him a message he couldn't understand
C) government bureaucrats in Washington misplaced the message
D) the Japanese Prime Minister was opposed to peace
E) it was the weekend

Answer: B

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