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 weapon be used to bring the ...
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 ...
... have questioned President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb against ... Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic ...
President Franklin Roosevelt called the attack “a day which will live in infamy,” and the American people were shocked and angered. The ensuing war was costly.
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a
Excerpts were shown from remarks by President Truman announcing the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman ...
During that time, the question of how the next atomic bomb would be used
Letters: Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of ...