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President Truman learned of the bomb test while in Potsdam, a suburb of burned-out and bombed-out Berlin, where he was meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, leaders of the nations allied with the U.S. in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The news that the atomic bomb actually worked promised to solve in a flash two of Truman's most urgent problems in the Pacific: the ordering of a heavy-casualty land invasion of the Japanese home islands, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, and the necessity of making concessions to Stalin in order to secure Soviet military intervention...
...atomic bomb held out the hope that neither action would be necessary. Truman confided to his diary, "It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful." The question of how to deliver and drop atomic bombs on Japanese soil had been thoroughly studied at the highest U.S. government levels well before the test in New Mexico. A list of prospective targets had been drawn up, with an emphasis...
...outside world learned of the Hiroshima bomb--but not of its gruesome effects--from a terse White House announcement approved by President Truman, who was steaming home from Potsdam on the U.S.S. Augusta. The big news was saved for the beginning of the third paragraph: "It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its powers has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East." This was the first public announcement anywhere indicating that nuclear weapons even existed...
...case would get to Tokyo." As Washington waited impatiently for word of surrender, the Japanese Cabinet tried to find out what on earth had happened to Hiroshima. Since the first reports seemed unbelievable, some Japanese leaders wanted desperately not to believe them. Others decided that even if Truman's announcement was true--that Hiroshima was hit with an atomic bomb--Japan should continue to fight. "I am convinced," War Minister Korechika Anami told his colleagues in the Cabinet, "that the Americans had only one bomb, after...
Gays and lesbians were denied security clearances under a "sexual perversion" clause in a loyalty program established byPresident Harry Truman after World War II, a time of growing concern over Communism...