The plan to use the atom bomb was already in motion before Truman took office—and we’ve been living with the consequences ever since.
Visitors look at a picture showing the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Japan in 2005.Seventy-five years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the world erupted into a new era. A single B-29 Superfortress airplane, nicknamed, dropped a new kind of weapon—an atomic bomb—on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
• Would a demonstration of the weapon—a massive eyewitnessed explosion in the middle of nowhere—have persuaded the Japanese to surrender? On the first two questions, declassified archival documents are pretty clear: There never was a decision to drop either bomb. Instead, there was a decision toan atom bomb. Once it was ready, it was used; once the second bomb was ready, it too was used. From the outset, this was the plan—an automatic sequence from building the bomb to testing it to dropping it on the enemy. The only decision Truman made was not to alter the plan.letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin D.
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