While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early as 1942, ... would “be opposed not only by the available organized military forces of the Empire
in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the ...
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 US remains the only country to ever use an atomic bomb in war.
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 ...
with the use of nuclear weapons against Japan, ...
In Japan, only 14% say the bombing was justified, versus 79% who say it was not . Not surprisingly, there is a large generation gap among ...
Why did Truman, who had proclaimed the Hiroshima attack to be “the greatest thing in history,” suddenly order the stoppage? Some believe he ...
between May 9 and June 1, it recommended use of the bomb against Japan as ...
Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war to a