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∙ 2011-09-03 21:55:18Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces
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∙ 2011-09-03 21:55:18Harry S. Truman was the US President at the end of World War II. The only two atomic bombs ever used in warfare were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and August 9, 1945.
In North Korea and China during the Korean war. He got fired by Truman for that.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. (There is no period after Truman's middle initial because he had no middle name - just a letter)
Neither president Roosevelt ordered atomic bombs dropped on anyplace.Teddy Roosevelt died in January 1919 and never heard anything about nuclear weapons.Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, he was replaced by Harry Truman who authorized the use of the atomic bombs but did not select the targets they would be use on (he left that decision up to the Army).
There was an assassination attempt on Truman which involved a gun. This incident caused Truman to be more aware of the importance of the Secret Service in the presidential homes.
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Truman was the only president to authorize nuclear weapons usage. It ended WW2.
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Harry S. Truman.
The use of nuclear weapons
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Absolutely opposite. Truman even fired MacArthur over the disagreement.
End the war as quickly as possible
President Truman and Douglas MacArthur disagreed about whether or not the US should use nuclear weapons against China. China had said they would support North Korea in the war. Truman relieved MacArthur of his command in 1951.
The Soviet Union was working on nuclear weapons and a weapons race begun. They were terrified of each other.
He was the first and only President to authorize the use of nuclear weapons on an enemy force.