Consultation with Britain and Canada. General Thomas Handy's order to General Carl Spaatz ordering the dropping of the atomic bombs. In ...
10, 1945, one day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and four days
result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.
On August 9, the day the Nagasaki bomb was dropped, Truman received a telegram from Samuel McCrea Cavert, a Protestant clergyman, who ...
On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people ...
A second bomb followed three days later over Nagasaki and killed
Alex Wellerstein remembers the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan,
No further orders were required for the attack. Truman's order of July 25th had authorized the dropping of additional bombs as soon as they were ready. At 3:47 ...
... the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of Nagasaki was even more of a war crime.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were said at the time to be