was required by the Quebec Agreement, and orders were issued on July 25 for atomic bombs
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 ...
While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early
But until Japan's final surrender offer, five days after the Nagasaki
... the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of
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 ...
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 ...
Three days later a second nuclear weapon was dropped on Nagasaki. Two weeks later Japan surrendered, ending World War Two. Early on ...
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a