“All he said was that he was glad to hear it and hoped we would make 'good use of it against the Japanese,'” Truman later wrote in his memoir, ...
One of the most persistent claims about the end of World War II is that the
Much of the work in the Manhattan Project was performed in Los
of scientific and industrial might, the United States made two bombs ready for
In August 1945, on Truman's orders, two atomic bombs were dropped on
More than merely a military standoff, the Cold War influenced political,
Cold War nuclear bomb testing stamped a date on every cell, giving
The first atomic bomb reduced the Japanese city of Hiroshima to ash and rubble ... decades since Truman's decision, from Cold War confrontations such
In January 1950, President Truman made the controversial decision to continue and intensify
atomic bomb on Japan, the scientists who had developed the bomb formed the Bulletin of ...