While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early
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 ...
On August 6, a Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima; three days later, a Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki.
On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70000 people instantly.
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 ...
Why did Truman, who had proclaimed the Hiroshima attack to be “the greatest thing in history,” suddenly order the stoppage? Some believe he ...
Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, called “Fat Man”, be dropped on
No known written record exists in which Harry Truman explicitly ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan. The closest thing to such a document is this ...
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 ...
They may be somewhat in error but are certainly of the right order of magnitude. Was Japan already beaten before the atomic bomb? The answer is certainly "yes " ...