The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb 
.... Japan continued to
bomb numerous European cities, and to kill US citizens on Japanese .... denied the US Potsdam treaty in 1945 to declare peace
Truman no longer ....
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Memo on Use of Atomic Bomb ; ¦
.... be made aware of the possible use of the atomic
bomb against Japan, has endorsed such use of the weapon if the end of the war will be hastened (
Truman 419-424 ....
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Atomic Bomb Development
.... maintained the Little Peace."10
Truman consciously distanced himself from nuclear matters, but his apprehensions and prudence about the
bomb were strikingly ....
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Moral Considerations and the Atomic Bomb
.... When this report was presented to President
Truman, it was suggested that the
bomb be used on Japan, rather than relying upon Soviet entry to cause Japan's ....
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Truman Presidency
....
Truman was so uninformed when taking office that he had no knowledge of the Manhattan Project, the plan to build the atomic
bomb, even though he ultimately ....
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Press Coverage During Truman's Administration
.... the US military and scientific community for the development of the
bomb, a "new era .... President
Truman voiced the danger: the processes of production and all the ....
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Use of the Atomic Bomb
.... came Roosevelt himself was dead, and Harry S
Truman was President, untried as a strategist (and, until he became President, uninformed about the
bomb project). ....
(2094
8
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The Atomic Bomb and Japan
.... The decision was made to use the atomic
bomb by the Big Three (United States .... destruction if Japan resisted and hope, if she surrendered, warned
Truman ("New Age ....
(2404
10
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
.... After much discussion, however, on June 1, 1945, Secretary Byrnes submitted three recommendations to President
Truman: 1) The
bomb should be used against Japan ....
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The Cold War
.... that the US,. "share" knowledge and
Truman using the threat of the
bomb in his negotiations with the Soviet Union. The result was ....
(1654
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Propaganda in WWII
.... When
Truman was considering dropping the atomic
bomb on Japan, one argument used for doing so was that it would shorten the war. ....
(809
3
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A photograph as artistic expression
.... Under Roosevelt's direction, the Pentagon was developing the Atomic
Bomb. While
Truman would be the one to eventually use this weapon, it was Roosevelt who had ....
(1806
7
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Dr. Strangelove
.... when America inaugurated the nuclear age by dropping the atomic
bomb on Japan .... by 1941 and included Dean Acheson, secretary of state under
Truman; Robert Lovett ....
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The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove
.... when America inaugurated the nuclear age by dropping the atomic
bomb on Japan .... by 1941 and included Dean Acheson, secretary of state under
Truman; Robert Lovett ....
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COLD WAR: ITS ORIGINS AND INEVITABILITY 1945-1947
.... FDR's successor, President Harry
Truman, was reluctant in 1945 and early 1946 to .... and felt vulnerable (despite the American monopoly of the atomic
bomb) to the ....
(2419
10
)
American Atomic Bombing in WWII
.... Even General Marshall's report to
Truman, as cited by Alperovitz, acknowledged that .... that American policymakers would have held back from using the
bomb in the ....
(1696
7
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US Views of the Cold War
.... stopped, but over the world towered the new Russian empire and the atomic
bomb. .... between the three great powers were at a new low, and
Truman's influence itself ....
(2241
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War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
.... shorten the war. The decision to drop the
bomb was left to President
Truman after the death of Roosevelt. Those concerned about ....
(1911
8
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Cold War Culture
.... Another decisive feature of World War II was US use of the atomic
bomb in Japan in 1945, which as President
Truman said in announcing the event, had "harness[ed ....
(4329
17
)
The Cold War
.... a great deal of pressure on Iran and Turkey which also prompted the
Truman Doctrine. Officially, the Cold War had begun. The dropping of the
bomb on Hiroshima ....
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Korean War
.... The dismissal of General MacArthur was significant because he had wanted to use the H-
bomb and destroy .... President
Truman, on the other hand, wanted a limited war ....
(2898
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US-Soviet Relations
....
Truman and Churchill did not convey to Stalin the results of the test, the fact that the
bomb had released energy equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. ....
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4 Essays on Key Events of US History
.... be viewed by the world and about the fact that the
bomb was more .... Yet, it would also appear that
Truman might have encountered problems by following Wallace's ....
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Government Initiatives: Historical Overview
.... was not an aberration but a continuation of the
Truman Doctrine established .... development which affected American society and politics--the
Bomb: The enclosing ....
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Cold War
.... His speeches had so worried US leaders that it prompted the
Truman Doctrine, a .... When the US dropped the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima it advertised the military ....
(2035
8
)
American Foreign Policies
.... aggressor for peace.22 Air Force General Orvil Anderson, Commander of the Air War College, publicly asked President
Truman for an order to
bomb Soviet nuclear ....
(6328
25
)
Foreign Policy and Democrats
.... At the beginning of the Cold War, Harry
Truman's doctrine of containment indicated that the .... that Iraq was on the verge of developing a nuclear
bomb (Ambrose 389 ....
(2117
8
)
British and American Ecnomic Systems
.... as a public emergency service, comparable to firefighting or
bomb disposal. .... coalition (by American standards) was dominant in the postwar
Truman administration ....
(2957
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)
NATO
.... Great Britain announced that she was no longer able to support Greece, President
Truman stepped in .... Lowenstein & Zuhlsdorff, 1960, p. 51) The
bomb protected the ....
(5404
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)
The Crucial Decade in America
....
Truman was President. The Alger Hiss case aroused complicated questions of loyalty. Arms escalation and the threat of the atomic
bomb loomed rather heavily. ....
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