Seventy years ago yesterday, an Army Air Forces B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of ... And without President Truman’s choice to use atomic weapons — twice — I probably ...

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.

He allowed nine nuclear bombs with fissile cores to be transferred into Air Force custody and transported to Okinawa. Truman also authorized another deployment of atomic-capable B-29s to Okinawa.

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 ...