In this fashion, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan can be seen as the first shot of the Cold War. atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S. Russian armies were occupying most of Eastern Europe. The meeting was marked by recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Truman, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee) ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. READ MORE: The Hiroshima Bombing Didn't Just End WWII-It Kick-Started the Cold Warīy August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. The wingspan was on the Enola Gay was 43 m and the ength was 30.2 m. The Enola gays engine has a 4 Wright R-3350-57 Cyclone turbo-supercharged radials, 2,200 hp which was a great engine for a plane during World War 2. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. The Enola Gay was a pretty gig plane that held all 12 of the crew members. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective.