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 order was also open-ended. “Additional bombs” could be dropped “as soon as made ready by the project staff.” An image of the signed ...
Operations Order No. 35 was an order issued by the 509th Composite Group on August 5, 1945 for the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. The Order was signed by Operations Officer Major James I. Hopkins , Jr. who ...
Alex Wellerstein remembers the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, the
Kupcinet's column in the Chicago Sun-Times about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. Papers of Harry S. Truman: Post-Presidential Files. Presidential ...
“It is an awful responsibility that has come to us,” the president wrote. President Truman had four options: 1) continue conventional bombing of ...
On the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, it's important to understand why
It was not an order to drop one atomic bomb; it was an order to permit the
Ever since America dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on
These were the real military documents that changed the world 70