As president, it was Harry Truman's decision if the weapon would be used
of the atomic bomb began in 1939 with then-President Franklin Roosevelt's support. ... bomb. Truman gave Stimson the handwritten order to release when ready but not
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order to
The closest thing to such a document is this handwritten order, addressed to Secretary of War Henry ...
Despite the fear that U.S. intervention in Korea might lead to open warfare
If you were President Truman in 1945, would you have dropped the bomb?
Certain pivotal events in history seem to open up a schism in time,
MacArthur had already turned down Air Force proposals to fire bomb North Korean cities
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Less than four months later, President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on the Japanese cities of ...