While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early
By May, 75 percent of bombs dropped were incendiaries designed to burn down Japan's "paper cities".
Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to ...
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 ...
“As the executive who ordered the dropping of the bomb, I think the sacrifice of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was urgent and necessary for the ...
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 ...
When the Japanese didn't surrender after the “Little Boy” bomb destroyed
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 until Japan's final surrender offer, five days after the Nagasaki
This directive constitutes final authorization for atomic attack; no further orders are issued.