The target list: "Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki.
This directive constitutes final authorization for atomic attack; no further orders are issued. The U-235 target for Little Boy is cast at Los Alamos. July 25: Peer de ...
Harry S Truman's Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
The war against Japan in the Pacific, however, continued to rage. President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan ...
Operations Order No. 35 was an order issued by the 509th Composite Group on August 5, 1945 for the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan, during ...
But even as Truman issued his statement, a second atomic attack was already in the works. According to an order drafted in late July by Lt. Gen ...
... as was required by the Quebec Agreement, and orders were issued on July 25 for atomic bombs to be used against Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki ...
Official order, July 25, 1945, for atomic bombing of Japan.
During that time, the question of how the next atomic bomb would be used was
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