As president, it was Harry Truman's decision if the weapon would be
In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of ...
Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese ...
When the Japanese didn't surrender after the “Little Boy” bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, called “Fat ...
Allied leadership—U.S. president Harry Truman, Soviet premier
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a quick end. ... Mariana Islands after the U.S. atomic bombing mission against the Japanese
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 ...
Truman viewed use of nuclear weapons as 'tragic,' but necessary to end war quickly.
For Truman, the choice whether or not to use the atomic bomb was the most difficult ... On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese ...
The Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, had promised to join the war against Japan by