President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
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 ...
The written order for the use of the atomic bomb against Japanese cities was drafted by General Groves. President Truman and Secretary of ...
No known written record exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan. The closest thing to such a document is this ...
"The US president has sole authority to authorise the use of US nuclear weapons ." Ordinarily, nobody is allowed to over-rule the president's ...
Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted ... Although some thought it necessary to keep Hirohito on the throne in order to ...
We propose that the use of nuclear weapons would require an order from the president and agreement by the next two people in the presidential ...
They discussed the post-war order and peace treaty issues. America ...
in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the ...
This first use of a nuclear weapon by any nation has long divided