why didn’t they begin with dropping the atomic bombs outside cities as a warning?

Question

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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Answer 1

it’s important to remember that the entire Manhattan Project produced a total of **three** devices. One was used for the Trinity test. That mean that the entire US stockpile was two nuclear weapons. That did not give us a lot of options in terms of using them as a “warning” particularly when it was impossible to know for certain that they would actually work (each bomb was a different design, only one of which had been tested at Trinity)