2007-01-11 03:27:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Roosevelt planned it, Truman dropped it.
2007-01-11 07:18:43 · answer #1 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roosevelt may have planned the nuclear bomb to be used on Japan, but he died before he could do that. Harry Truman, who came after Roosevelt, as Roosevelt's VP, actually ordered the bomb to be dropped.
2007-01-11 03:35:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
President Harry Truman who followed Roosevelt into the Presidency when Roosevelt died, made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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2007-01-11 04:07:04 · answer #3 · answered by No one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bombs were ready and Truman didn't know a thing about them. But the decision to use them was Truman's, and the targets were chosen from a list that was up to date. They didn't want to hit Kyoto and a lot of cities had already been destroyed past the point where it would have made sense to re-bomb them. By the way, did you know that the bombing raid on Tokyo 9/10 May 1945 killed about as many people as the combined raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
2007-01-11 03:49:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was in the works when Roosevelt was President, but Truman was President when it was dropped.
2007-01-11 03:32:37 · answer #5 · answered by DGS 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he planned it for the next president and I don't know about him planning it on Japan.
2007-01-11 03:32:16 · answer #6 · answered by Irish Girl 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋