In mid-July, President Harry S Truman was notified of the successful test of the
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 invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new ...
Having been told about the successful Trinity Test of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945. It was his ...
Soviet premier Joseph Stalin (left), U.S. president Harry S. Truman
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 ...
Along the way, the ratio of Japanese to American casualties dropped from five to one in
in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
Less than four months later, President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on the Japanese cities of ...
... the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of
Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage.