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Robert L. Dennison Oral History Interview
… , 140 , 141-143 missouri , u.s.s., 3-4 , 11 and racial segregation, 189-190 , 192-193 mitzzher, admiral marc, 138 , 139 nagasaki, japan, 63-64 navy, secretaries of, rated by robert l. dennison, 16-17 nimitz, admiral chester, 8-9 , 11 pauley, …
John W. Snyder Oral History Interview, May 28, 1969
… -- 4 scientists.. 3. four cities were selected as military targets if bomb would work: hiroshima, kokura, niigata and nagasaki. stimson, marshall and arnold took part in conferences. report of committee was submitted to the president by … while president was en route home from potsdam. president truman reached u.s. on august 7, 1945. 9. second bomb dropped on nagasaki on august 9th. 10. japan surrendered august 10th. hess: i believe that it was in potsdam that truman told stalin … hiroshima was just a composite of manufacturing plants. and the later one that they dropped was on a port town. hess: nagasaki. snyder: yes, nagasaki. but the justification seemed to be very strong because of the bringing the war to a close, …
Oral History Interview
… and with particular surprise in view of the statement that had been made after the second bomb had been dropped on nagasaki. the president gave the japanese to understand that if they did not surrender, there would be more of the same. now, … have been an equivocation. he wouldn't have had to say it. hess: it was quite some time since the dropping of the bomb on nagasaki and hiroshima, why hadn't more bombs been constructed in the interim periodfrom august of '45 until october of '46? … this i had not known until oppenheimer's testimony nine years later. the two that were selected, he said, hiroshima and nagasaki, were the two that seemed 'bright" to them. it will be generations before we live that down. hess: in your opinion, …
U. Alexis Johnson Oral History Interview
… making contact with the task forces that came in to evacuate them--primarily the naval task forces at wakkanai and also at nagasaki. i wasn't in charge; i don't want to overstate my role in it. but in most of these places, i was the first american … camps and make contact with people. so, for a young fso, you know, this was very heady business. as a matter of fact, in nagasaki i had the pleasure of welcoming the marines ashore. the commander was the officer who had been an attache in rio … policy, japan, 10 , 15 , 16-19 , 45 , 47 , 51 , 53 , 54 , 58 , 74 merchant, livingston, 44 , 67 muccio, john h., 41-42 nagasaki, japan, landing of u.s. marines at, 1945, 8-9 national war college, 13 okinawa, 22-23 overton, douglas, 22-23 …
Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interview, August 4, 1975
… bomb on japan; japan's decision to attack pearl harbor; surrender of japan; effects of atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki; postwar missions of american armed forces; office of international trade policy; u.s. state department policy … with the first two questions. the third one was the question of the effect of the atomic weapons dropped at hiroshima and nagasaki. we had recruited some 250 engineers and scientists to help on that particular job. there had been a preliminary … did the basic, thorough survey of all the effects. at that time the newspapers treated the atomic weapons at hiroshima and nagasaki as being the ultimate weapons of ultimate horror and ultimate effectiveness. we thought our task was to be very …
Robert W. Barnett Oral History Interview
… world for four years, that was prostrate as a result of the fire bombings and of course the nuclear bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki; of broken spirit; of great disorientation, a kind of clinging together in family and company units, of [17] …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History
… s., 288 , 563 , 616 , 704 , 861 mutual broadcasting company, 994 , 1023 , 1026 my first fifty years in politics , 826 n nagasaki, japan, 373 , 805 napoleon, 298 narvik, norway, 313 nash, philleo, 195-196 national broadcasting company (nbc), 289 …
R. Gordon Arneson Oral History Interview
… yes, i know one that has been on my mind for many, many years. one afternoon shortly after the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, i was in harrison's outer office, with major britt from groves office. the major had a message to be transmitted … mcnaughton, andrew g. l., 47 , 48 , 60 memorandum of intention, 29 , 32 merck committee, 49 military liaison committee, 34 nagasaki, 20 nato, 44 , 45 nichols, kenneth, 43 nitze, paul, 62 nsc, 9 , 62 , 63 nsc-68, 63 oppenheimer, j. robert, 21 , 41 , …
Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interviews, June 11 and June 17, 1975
… bomb on japan; japan's decision to attack pearl harbor; surrender of japan; effects of atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki; postwar missions of american armed forces; office of international trade policy; u.s. state department policy … truman had asked them. president truman was left then with the alternative of using atomic weapons against hiroshima and nagasaki or of authorizing the attack against kyushu on the tokyo plain. as i remember, the estimates were that we would … they make the decision earlier? thirdly, he wanted us to investigate the effects of the atomic weapon at hiroshima and nagasaki. fourth, he wanted us to think about and make recommendations as to the postwar organization the optimum postwar …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 22, 1970
… started pressing the president with questions. the atomic bomb was a red hot subject. this wasn't long after hiroshima and nagasaki. he asked the president if we would give the british the secret of the atomic bomb. the president, with his penchant …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, March 17, 1976
… and the other pacific islands, the loss of life would have been far, far greater than the loss of life in hiroshima and nagasaki. hill: moving along, you said that president truman relied heavily on his staff in the first year. how did he do …
William H. Cunningham Oral History Interview
… no doubt pick up better grade scuttlebutt than the boys out at sea. johnson: but it wasn't until after the bombing of nagasaki. cunningham: and also the fleet was warned not to send any of their planes within several hundred miles of that …
Robert L. Dennison Oral History Interview, October 6, 1971
… and we talked to a great many people, including the generalissimo. in japan we flew over and around hiroshima and nagasaki. this was a startling sight. each of these cities was devastated. you could see the shadow cast by buildings in this …
Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interviews, August 5 and August 6, 1975
… bomb on japan; japan's decision to attack pearl harbor; surrender of japan; effects of atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki; postwar missions of american armed forces; office of international trade policy; u.s. state department policy … percentage of the stockpile as it existed at that time. those were larger weapons than the 20 kt weapons at hiroshima and nagasaki. they weren't that much larger. it was highly dubious as to the real military effectiveness of that quantity of … pearl harbor, 106-109 , 131-134 decision to use the atomic bomb on, 88-96 effects of atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki, 96 , 111 , 113-117 , 261 planning of economy, 102-104 surrender of, 96 , 109-110 jennings, brewster, 327 jessup, …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, November 5, 1970
… of the atomic bomb? nixon: certainly. that has been the pervasive question throughout the world ever since hiroshima and nagasaki. would this country ever use it again? that was the $64 question. [806] the president soon backed away from this …
Major General Kenner F. Hertford Oral History Interview
… in the world for the u.s. to do from a military and political point of view. dropping a bunch of [62] mark iii bombs (nagasaki type) on supposedly military lines or dug-in places would have killed civilians on the outside but not gotten the …
Carroll H. Kenworthy Oral History Interview
… go down in, i suppose, all of history for truman is that he approved the launching of the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki. hess: what is your personal opinion on that subject? do you think that that should have been done or not? …
Judge William H. Hastie Oral History Interview
… without that. at the time, i remember asking myself the question which now seems to me even more questionable, "was nagasaki necessary?" even assuming that the demonstration of the destructive power of the bomb was necessary, and that the …
Eugene Zuckert Oral History Interview
… have believed what it could do, what its possibilities were. even with an atomic bomb having been dropped at hiroshima and nagasaki, in the period when i was in the commission, we always had people saying, "you aren't telling us enough about the …
Edward T. Folliard Oral History Interview
… and he knew what it meant. [44] some people would say, "well, wouldn't the decision to drop the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki, wouldn't that have been the hardest decision?" he never thought so, you know. he told me -- i was talking to him …
H. Graham Morison Oral History Interview, August 4, 1972
… that month and the [93] first bomb was dropped on august the 6th of '45. morison: '45. hess: that was hiroshima, and then nagasaki was three days later on august the 9th. morison: yes, that sounds right. hess: just about how long before august the …
William E. Warne Oral History Interview
… it. johnson: so all you know was that it was "project x?" warne: that's all, until the day after the bomb was dropped on nagasaki. i was out there with a congressional committee at grand coulee dam, and they said, "okay, now you can visit the …
Gaylon Babcock Oral History Interview
… we were the first people from america that were entertained there. we were all over japan from hokkaido way north to the nagasaki area; we spent all our time traveling all around. and i want to tell you something; if this country goes on as i …
Walter Trohan Oral History Interview
… one in vietnam. also the other [61] one (there's no malice on this on my part), he dropped that pineapple on hiroshima and nagasaki and we've got... hess: what's your opinion on that? trohan: we've got ourselves a guilt complex about that and …
John H. Tolan, Jr. Oral History Interview
… -- and just about everywhere else that had a part in the pacific theater of war. but the atom bombs at hiroshima and nagasaki cancelled our trip. at least it was indefinitely postponed. fuchs: were your committee travels at an end? tolan: no, …
Robert K. Walsh Oral History Interview
… we're against it. you don't want to drop it anywhere. and looking back i don't know that it was so good. why drop it on nagasaki, why drop it on hiroshima, big cities like that, when they're bound to kill just hundreds of thousands of people and …