WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
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He led a top-secret project that developed the bombs.
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He piloted the planes that dropped the bombs on Hiroshima.
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He protested the military’s decision to drop the bombs.
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He gave the order to drop the bombs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Truman did not seek to destroy Japanese culture or people; the goal was to destroy Japan’s ability to make war. So, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.
Detailed explanation-2: -Truman stated that his decision to drop the bomb was purely military. A Normandy-type amphibious landing would have cost an estimated million casualties. Truman believed that the bombs saved Japanese lives as well. Prolonging the war was not an option for the President.
Detailed explanation-3: -The biography for President Truman and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry Truman scarcely saw President Franklin Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia.