Foreign Policy Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
... In 1945, President Truman decided to drop the first Atomic Bomb on Japan. ... This war became very expensive and after the realization that Japan would fight until the bitter end, the decision to employ the Atomic Bomb fell into the hands of President Harry Truman. ... On the morning of August 6th, 1945 at 8:15, the atomic device “Little Boy” exploded in Hiroshima. ... Most interestingly, the bombing can be viewed as a warning to the USSR and to the world by the demonstration of the awesome power of an atomic bomb. After no surrender was made by Japan, a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki where another 40,000 people were killed. ... All in all, the right decision was made by President Harry Truman.