The war against Japan in the Pacific, however, continued to rage. President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan ...
Aerial view of Hiroshima depicts the terrific destructive force of the
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
as was required by the Quebec Agreement, and orders were issued on July 25 for atomic bombs
The closest thing to such a document is this handwritten order, addressed to ...
In his 1995 book, Drop the Atomic Bomb on Kyoto, Japanese historian Morio
After President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945, it became Harry Truman's job to decide how to end the war. The thought of invading Japan gave Truman and ...
On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70000 people ...
On the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, it's important to understand why Truman revised history.