On August 9, the day the Nagasaki bomb was dropped, Truman received a telegram from Samuel McCrea Cavert, a Protestant clergyman, who ...
in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.
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 ...
The document below is the order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs. In it, the Acting Army Chief of Staff, Thomas Handy, orders Commanding General ...
off Tinian by Sweeney using Bockscar as the drop airplane.
... have questioned President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb against ... Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan.
“As the executive who ordered the dropping of the bomb, I think the sacrifice of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was urgent and necessary for the ...
It was not an order to drop one atomic bomb; it was an order to permit the dropping of as many atomic bombs that were or would become ...
The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb · Just weeks before the US dropped the most powerful weapon mankind has ever known, ...
As Harry Truman, the president who ordered the dropping of the bomb, told Tibbets when they met in 1948: "I'm the guy who sent you. If anybody ...