As president, it was Harry Truman's decision if the weapon would be
He had orders as to the first bomb's primary target: Hiroshima. According
record exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
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 ... Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing ...
Japan, sensing conflict was inevitable, began planning for an attack on Pearl Harbor by April, 1941. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, ...
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 ...
Allied leadership—U.S. president Harry Truman, Soviet premier Joseph
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a quick end. ... just a hint from President Truman that the Japanese emperor could stay on
an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan
An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work.