President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
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 ...
Having been told about the successful Trinity Test of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945. It was his ...
The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership.
Soviet premier Joseph Stalin (left), U.S. president Harry S. Truman
in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
Less than four months later, President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on the Japanese cities of ...
Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage.
be released over Japan without express authority from the President", something Truman had requested that day.
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a