Truman authorizes atomic bombing of Japan

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• All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power whole source · open book

  Yet on August 6, Truman dropped a massive atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and followed a few days later with another one on Nagasaki. About seventy thousand people died immediately in the Hiroshima explosion, with seventy thousand more from radiation over the next five years.

  chapter: Chapter 8: The Early to Mid-1940s: World War II, Bankers, and War Bucks

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

  Fat Man dropped from the B-29, fell through the hole and exploded 1,650 feet above the steep slopes of the city at 11:02 A.M., August 9, 1945, with a force later estimated at 22 kilotons

  chapter: ch19b

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