In mid-July, President Harry S Truman was notified of the successful test of the
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new ...
He then ordered his men to open fire, and their attack destroyed the enemy battery.
and loss of American lives. The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership.
When the Japanese didn't surrender after the “Little Boy” bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, called “Fat Man”, ...
President Franklin Roosevelt called the attack “a day which will live in infamy,” and the American people were shocked and angered. The ensuing war was costly.
During that time, the question of how the next atomic bomb would be
Why the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a quick end. ... the Northern Mariana Islands after the U.S. atomic bombing mission
to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became America's 33rd President.