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Harry Truman And The Atomic Bomb
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As Vice-president, Harry Truman had not known about the development of the atomic bomb. On the day he assumed the Presidency at the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had spoken to him briefly and told him that the United States was working on a weapon of extraor ....
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....9, 1945, Fat Man devastated more that two square miles of the city. It exploded with a force equal to 20 kilotons of TNT, and caused approximately 45,000 immediate deaths. Maj. Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot, Fred Bock.
Truman states his reasons in his radio address August 9. Truman said “the United States had used the atomic bomb against those who attacked us without .... |
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