President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of Japanese cities; 2) invade Japan; 3) demonstrate the bomb on an ...
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 ...
Less than four months later, President Truman unleashed the nuclear age, ordering that atomic bombs be dropped on the Japanese cities of ...
of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan ... destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, ...
Allied leadership—U.S. president Harry Truman, Soviet premier Joseph
required by the Quebec Agreement, and orders were issued on July 25 for atomic bombs to be used against Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki.
The President rejected a demonstration of the atomic bomb to the Japanese leadership.
From Truman onwards, the ability to order a nuclear strike has shaped the office. ... During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F Kennedy
to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities, as well as post-war nuclear policy. ... economist Alexander Sachs arranged a meeting with Roosevelt in order to ...
Excerpts were shown from remarks by President Truman announcing the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman ...