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What Truman did do, the next day (August 10), as I have written about, is issue the order to STOP dropping atomic bombs on Japan. That is the most "proactive" thing he did regarding the atomic bomb in WWII. thebulletin.org/2025/08/trum...
Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stoppedOn the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that atomi...thebulletin.org