Seventy years ago yesterday, an Army Air Forces B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese ... honest measurement of awful options. And Harry Truman made the right call. Celebrating his 90th ...

In the postwar period, that view was confirmed and reinforced by Truman and leading members of his administration, who declared that the atomic bombs were a last resort to avert a bloody invasion.

During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia ...

It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic ... influence towards the maintenance of world peace. Source: Harry S. Truman Library, "Army press notes," box 4, Papers of Eben A.

Harry Truman served as a senator from Missouri ... Of interest is the fact that President Truman never hesitated to use the atomic bombs to help end the war. He never responded to the many ...

Major Harry B. Bailey, an intelligence officer for the 98th Bomb Group ... weren’t impressed by—the atomic-capable B-29s waiting at Guam. President Truman raised the ante.

President Truman ... bomb any time after August 3, all he can do is wait for news. Preparations are progressing well. Little Boy is wheeled carefully out of its hanger. But Captain Parsons, an ...

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Even before the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949 ... The C.I.A. told President Harry S. Truman that the United States faced an enemy with “no scruples about employing any ...