Harry Truman in Podcasts
personU.S. president who ordered the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
See speaking appearances of this personMentions Over Time
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Behind the Bastards
Part Three: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All
Harry Truman, the president who ordered the atomic bombs dropped, went on record basically saying that military planners had told him that when they were looking into like what – how many people would die in an invasion of the Japanese home islands, American casualties alone would have been in the neighborhood of 500,000 to a million.