Why did they not drop the Atomic bombs in rural areas as a warning/show of strength before using them on cities?
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The way your question is worded it is easy for people to infer your position on the issue based upon how many people have asked the same (or similar questions) with agendas attached to them.
There are multiple reasons that all work together.
From what I remember of history, the United States did not have any more bombs, just the two that were dropped.
The powers that be were not convinced the bomb work work. That is, yes, they managed to make a stationary bomb go boom, but can you put it in a plane, have it go through the rigor of travel to an American airbase, and being loaded into a plane, and then arm it in flight, drop it and have the triggering mechanism work, and then will all of the new technology actually make THAT bomb go boom? If we assume that we told the Japanese government to look on this mountain for a mighty explosion and it did not work, would the US have more or less credibility?
The thought by those in power is that Japan would fight very nearly to the last man woman and child. In Europe German forces would sometimes surrender in units the size of a regiment. In the island hopping campaign in the Pacific, it was rare to get groups of two Japanese soldiers to surrender together. Women would pick up children and jump to both their deaths off cliffs before they would let themselves be captured by the Americans. The idea that the invasion of the home islands would be especially bloody was not simply made up. Japanese resistance was so tough that it took 2 bombs, and even then there was an attempted coup to keep Japan in the war.
Having American die by the thousands when there was a bomb that could be used that might shorten the war by even a few months is too strong of an incentive to not use it.
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