In mid-July, President Harry S Truman was notified of the successful
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. He knew there was no guarantee the Japanese would surrender if the test ...
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.
bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic ...
Excerpts were shown from remarks by President Truman announcing the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman ...
Truman ordered a halt to the shipment, a hiatus to see what the Japanese would do. Conventional bombing was also interrupted. More nuclear ...
Why the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
During that time, the question of how the next atomic bomb would be used
Consultation with Britain and Canada. General Thomas Handy's order to General Carl Spaatz ordering the dropping of the atomic bombs. In ...