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

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The main reason was that the Japanese sent a message that Truman couldn't understand, indicating a breakdown in communication rather than a lack of interest in peace from the Japanese side.

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