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DROPPING THE ATOMIC BOMB:
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PETER BASTIAN (AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY)
 

Document List

Extracts from Memorandum from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to Harry S. Truman 16th May 1945
Strategies for ending the Pacific war

Diary Entry of Harry S. Truman, 18th July 1945
Links between the bomb and the Russians

Diary Entry of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, 22 July 1945
Impact of the bomb on relations with USSR

Diary Entry of Harry S. Truman 25th July 1945
How to use the bomb against Japan

Recollections of Colonel  Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay
Reaction to dropping the bomb

Memories of Kimiko Takai of the Hiroshima explosion
Child's reaction to bomb being dropped

Harry S. Truman's statements after the dropping of the first atomic bomb
Statements on why the bomb was dropped, 1945-1963

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