As president, it was Harry Truman's decision if the weapon would be
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 ...
of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan ... destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, ...
During that time, the question of how the next atomic bomb would be used
The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership. He knew there was no guarantee the Japanese would surrender if the test ...
Less than four months later, President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on the Japanese cities of ...
Along the way, the ratio of Japanese to American casualties dropped from
in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
... the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima,
Excerpts were shown from remarks by President Truman announcing the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman ...