Not Enough TimeThey didn't give them a chance to. The Americans dropped the first one on Hiroshima. Then they dropped the other one a few days later on Nagasaki just for good measure. Three days wasn't enough time because shortly after the first atomic bombing, Manchuria was invaded by the Russians. Manchuria was Japan's line of communications to the Allies. This prevented the Japanese from communicating with the US until after the bomb was dropped. Little known fact, Stalin was making contact with the Japanese well before this for the Japanese to conditionally surrender, although Stalin kept this hidden from the other Allies. And when the bomb had gone off in Hiroshima, there was no one there(obviously) to let the Japanese government know. Japan's government officials were under the opini