Was the decision to use atomic bombs in Japan instead of Europe motivated by racism against the Japanese?

by DeadDak

The propaganda demonized all of the Axis Powers, but considering the racially motivated internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans, was the decision to use atomic weapons (twice) in Japan racially motivated?

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This gets asked a lot on here. Here's a somewhat long answer I wrote awhile back. While racism may have played a role in the acceleration of city bombing in general against the Japanese relative to the Germans, the main reason the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and not the Germans is that they were not ready to be used before the Germans surrendered. The Germans surrendered in May 1945. The atomic bombs were not ready until late July 1945.