Truman was afraid that an invasion of Japan would look like "Okinawa from one end of Japan to the other." Casualty predictions varied, but all ...
Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing ...
of an atomic bomb, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan ... destroyed Hiroshima, President Truman ordered that a second atomic bomb, ...
Allied leadership—U.S. president Harry Truman, Soviet premier Joseph
The ensuing war was costly. Years of fighting brought the US armed forces closer and closer to Japan as they “hopped” from one island to another. The Japanese ...
For Truman, the choice whether or not to use the atomic bomb was the most difficult ... On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese ...
Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese ...
In its place was Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto.
President Harry Truman announces the Japanese surrender - and
A second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki three days later.