In mid-July, President Harry S Truman was notified of the successful
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 ...
The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership. He knew there was no guarantee the Japanese would surrender if the test ...
... have questioned President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb against ... Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic ...
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.
Excerpts were shown from remarks by President Truman announcing the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman ...
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a
By May, 75 percent of bombs dropped were incendiaries designed to burn
Why the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima