Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.

Following the bombing of Hiroshima three days earlier, Nagasaki’s destruction compelled Japan’s unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945. And without President Truman’s choice to use ...

Barack Obama was the first American president to visit Hiroshima since ... dropping the second atomic bomb on Japan, on August 9, 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman addressed the nation on the ...

This week, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima ... apology for Harry Truman’s decision to drop an atomic bomb on the city in August 1945.

President Truman ... city of Hiroshima. It is densely populated and one of the chief supply depots for the Japanese army. The Americans have subjected Japanese cities to a brutal fire-bombing ...

Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was ... on my hands,” Oppenheimer told then-president Truman in the months after the attack, according to ...

HIROSHIMA--The ruins of ... corps that were destroyed in the atomic bombing were discovered on the west side of Hiroshima Castle here, Hiroshima city announced on June 15. More than 400 people ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the ... millions of Japanese deaths. President Truman justified his decision by pointing to the ...

grandson of Harry Truman, who was the U.S. president when the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The film is expected to be released in theaters next year. Sadako was 2 years ...