Nuclear Weapons - The New Standard in Diplomatic Negotiation

Truman had decreed that nuclear weapons and the concordant threat of world annihilation were the new standard in international diplomatic negotiation. The point of these bombs was to speed up the timetable of Japanese surrender, so as not to let the Soviets gain more influence in East Asia. In Stalin, who by now clearly felt the hostility emanating from Truman, wanted to make sure that the Soviet Union had as many allies as possible by the war's end.