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 ...
At the time, the president seemed conflicted over his decision. The day after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, Truman received a telegram from ...
Soviet premier Joseph Stalin (left), U.S. president Harry S. Truman
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.
Along the way, the ratio of Japanese to American casualties dropped from five to one in
So, an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in
They discussed the post-war order and peace treaty issues. America had the bomb.
Why the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities ...
The first atomic bomb reduced the Japanese city of Hiroshima to ash and rubble ... President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs