Hiroshima Nagasaki
"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language [the Japanese] seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true."
War and conflict
1 volume
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Winter 1945
Two cities
Feuersturm
President
Atom
The Manhattan Project
Spring 1945
The target committee
Japan defeated
Unconditional surrender
Trinity
Potsdam
Mokusatsu
Summer 1945
Tinian Island
Augusta
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
Invasion
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945
Surrender
Reckoning
Hibakusha
Why
Dead heat