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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

by Harry S. Truman

Voltaire Network | Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 6 August 1945

Press release by the White House, August 6, 1945

Harry S. Truman

President of the United States (1945-53)

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

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