Truman was afraid that an invasion of Japan would look like "Okinawa
On August 2, the day Truman started his transatlantic journey home aboard the
exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
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 ... Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing ...
But until Japan's final surrender offer, five days after the Nagasaki bombing,
Test of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan ... destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, ...
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a quick end. ... totaled up on August 15, 1945, when Japan's surrender was announced.
The first atomic bomb reduced the Japanese city of Hiroshima to ash and rubble ... President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be ... After that, it was just a matter of when and where to use it.
Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. ... Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on ...
A second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki three days later.