President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring
Over 3,500 Japanese kamikaze raids had already wrought great destruction and loss of American lives. The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic ...
No known written record exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
The American planners wanted the first use of the atomic bomb to make
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a quick end. ... Islands after the U.S. atomic bombing mission against the Japanese
"The US president has sole authority to authorise the use of US nuclear
Author of Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism, Man of the
The US remains the only country to ever use an atomic bomb in war.
No Other Choice: Why Truman Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan