Orders for the attack were issued to General Carl Spaatz on July 25 under the signature of General Thomas T. Handy, the acting Chief of Staff, since Marshall was ...
Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to ...
“As the executive who ordered the dropping of the bomb, I think the sacrifice of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was urgent and necessary for the ...
First, who would Japan select to evaluate the demonstration and advise the government? A single scientist? A committee of politicians? How ...
On the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, it's important to understand why
On August 6, the city of Hiroshima, Japan remembers those who lost their lives when the atomic bomb fell. Thousands attend the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...
"Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war ," President Harry Truman, who ordered the attacks, declared in ...
... Orders for the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In order of choice it is: Hiroshima, Kokura, and Niigata. He also receives an estimate of atomic bomb availability: Little Boy should be ready for use on Aug.
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of Nagasaki ...