Truman orders the atomic bomb used and picks targets

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 690-692 · open book

  The President on July 18th ordered the second bomb to be dropped on Japan as soon as it was ready, and on July 24th he chose the list of possible targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Nigata, and Nagasaki.

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• The Making of the Atomic Bomb whole source · open book

  isers was one level of discourse in the spring of 1945 on the uses of the atomic bomb. Another was joined two days after Stimson and Groves briefed the President when a Target Committee

  chapter: Chapter 18: Trinity

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