The Interim Committee recommends use
1945 · Event
Stimson's committee of officials and scientists advises Truman that the bomb be used against Japan as soon as possible, without warning, on a target that will show its power — rejecting a demonstration as too risky. The moral argument is held and lost in a single meeting.
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- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- Einstein-Szilard letter (1939)
- Los Alamos Laboratory established (1943)
- Roosevelt authorises the atomic bomb (1942)
- Truman is told about the bomb (1945)
- The MAUD Report says the bomb is feasible (1941)
- Truman tells Stalin of a 'new weapon' (1945)
Around 1945
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)