in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.
Consultation with Britain and Canada. General Thomas Handy's order to General Carl Spaatz ordering the dropping of the atomic bombs. In ...
On August 9, the day the Nagasaki bomb was dropped, Truman received a telegram from Samuel McCrea Cavert, a Protestant clergyman, who ...
They discussed the post-war order and peace treaty issues. America had the bomb. Now what? When Harry Truman learned of the success of the Manhattan ...
“As the executive who ordered the dropping of the bomb, I think the sacrifice of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was urgent and necessary for the ...
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 ...
The closest thing to such a document is this handwritten order, addressed to Secretary of War Henry Stimson, in which Truman authorized the release of a public ...
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 potential damage from the twenty-two-thousand-pound bomb was so vast that the Pentagon ordered a legal review to insure that the ...
the “Little Boy” bomb destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a ...