President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War ... President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to ... in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring ...
The second atomic weapon used against Japan, this single bomb resulted in the ... The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese ...
in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a quick end. ... hint from President Truman that the Japanese emperor could stay on
"It is not to be released over Japan without express authority from the President", something
Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded.
On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on
proved that atomic bombs would work, if they were needed to be used in war.