The saturation bombing of Japan took much fiercer tolls and wrought far
He had orders as to the first bomb's primary target: Hiroshima. According to
Truman may have had a very peripheral role in the ordering of the use of the atomic bomb—his main role, as Groves later put it, was not to ...
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 weapon be used to bring the war to
To many in Japan and elsewhere, he was the perpetrator of a war crime
Truman viewed use of nuclear weapons as 'tragic,' but necessary to end war
The Interim Committee also recommended against giving the Japanese any warning or
6th May 1941: The US Secretary for War, Henry L Stimson (1867 -
Congress passed Truman's aid package to Greece and Turkey in May 1947 with clear
Alex Wellerstein remembers the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan,