While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early
Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War ... to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the ...
Along the way, the ratio of Japanese to American casualties dropped from five to one in the Philippines to two to one on
On August 6, the city of Hiroshima, Japan remembers those who lost their lives when the atomic bomb fell. Thousands attend the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...
... the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of
When the Japanese didn't surrender after the “Little Boy” bomb destroyed
No known written record exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan. The closest thing to such a document is this ...
Why did Truman, who had proclaimed the Hiroshima attack to be “the greatest thing in history,” suddenly order the stoppage? Some believe he ...
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 ...
But in early June 1945, Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered Kyoto to be