This directive constitutes final authorization for atomic attack; no further orders are issued.
But until Japan's final surrender offer, five days after the Nagasaki
President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
The document below is the order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs. In it, the Acting Army Chief of Staff, Thomas Handy, orders Commanding General ...
The explicit reason was to swiftly end the war with Japan.
This modified the previous order that the target cities were to be attacked with atomic bombs "as made ready".
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Official order, July 25, 1945, for atomic bombing of Japan. Text, image.
In his 1995 book, Drop the Atomic Bomb on Kyoto, Japanese
The Japanese periodic censuses are not complete. Finally, the