The declaration stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face “prompt and utter destruction.” Japan ignored the ultimatum.
On July 26, 1945, the Postdam Declaration was issued by President Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chang Kai-Shek calling for the surrender of Japan as outline by the Potsdam Conference. Truman had only assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt in April. This decision drop the bomb was made by President Harry Truman. Robert Oppenheimer and came about due to rising fears that Nazi Germany was developing nuclear weapons. The Manhattan Project was led by the United States along with the Great Britain and Canada under the scientific direction of Dr. Named, Little Boy, the bomb was developed by the Manhattan Project. 65 years ago today the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
