President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
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 ...
The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership.
When the Japanese didn't surrender after the “Little Boy” bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, called “Fat Man”, ...
record exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
One day later, the president of the United States learned of the Trinity
Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities ...
"The US president has sole authority to authorise the use of US nuclear weapons ." Ordinarily, nobody is allowed to over-rule the president's ...
The order to drop the atomic bomb, July 25, 1945.
Less than four months later, President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on the Japanese cities of ...