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English: An edited clip of Truman talking about the bombing of Hiroshima. This is an extract from a radio report to the American people on the Potsdam Conference that was recorded at the White House by Columbia Broadcasting System on August 9, 1945.
In a widely broadcast speech after the bombing of Hiroshima, which was picked up by Japanese news agencies, Truman warned that if Japan failed to accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, it could "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth."
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, as he was vice president at the time.
But without Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bombs, World War II would not have ended on the deck of the USS Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945, less than a month after Hiroshima. D.M. Giangreco is a ...
The renovated Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum is a must-see. ... who was 2 years old when Hiroshima was decimated by the first of the two atomic bombs that killed more than 200,000 ...
The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises into the air from the hypocenter.. Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively at the close of the Pacific War theater of World War II (1939–45).
Truman's chief advisors came from the State Department, especially Dean Acheson. The main issues of the United States foreign policy during include: [35] Final stages of World War II included the problem of defeating Japan with minimal American casualties. Truman asked Moscow to invade from the north, and decided to drop two atomic bombs. [36]
Stimson then approached President Harry S. Truman about the matter. Truman agreed with Stimson, and Kyoto was temporarily removed from the target list. [79] Groves attempted to restore Kyoto to the target list in July, but Stimson remained adamant. [80] [81] On 25 July, Nagasaki was put on the target list in place of Kyoto. It was a major ...