Japan was split between surrender or fighting to the end. They chose to fight. In mid-July, President Harry S Truman was notified of the ...
Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing ...
destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, ...
Allied leadership—U.S. president Harry Truman, Soviet premier Joseph
In this exclusive adaptation from The Accidental President—a book covering the first
President Harry Truman announces the Japanese surrender - and the end of World War II -
President Truman issues the Potsdam Declaration, which warns Japan of "prompt and utter ... The order was sealed and sent by special courier to General Curtis LeMay's ...
The consent of the United Kingdom was obtained for the bombing, as was required by the Quebec Agreement, and orders were issued on July 25 for atomic ...
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a
President Truman was on board the USS Augusta in the mid-Atlantic on