The Man Who Dropped The Bomb (Documentary)
June 12, 2025
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This isn’t just a story about war or politics, it’s about an ordinary man who ended up making one of the most extraordinary decisions in history. Harry Truman never expected to be president. He wasn’t a war hero or a household name. But in one of the most intense moments of the 20th century, the weight of the world fell on his shoulders.
This video takes you inside Truman’s unlikely rise, the pressures of his early presidency, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. a moment that still shapes our world today.
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Works Cited
"After the Bomb." TIME, 3 Aug. 2020, time.com/after-the-bomb/.
Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Excerpt, The New York Times, 7 May 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/books/chapters/0507-1st-alter.html.
"A Future President Grows Up." Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/student-resources/trumans-youth/a-future-president-grows-up.
Darman, Jonathan. Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President. Random House, 2022.
"President Harry S. Truman - Event Timeline." The American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/harry-s-truman-event-timeline.
"The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II." The National WWII Museum, 6 Aug. 2020, www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/atomic-bomb-hiroshima.
"The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." National Park Service, 7 Aug. 2020, www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.htm.
"The Path to Pearl Harbor." The National WWII Museum, 26 Nov. 2019, www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/path-pearl-harbor.
"The Potsdam Conference." The National WWII Museum, 15 July 2020, www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/potsdam-conference.
"Why Japan Did Not Surrender." BBC History, www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/japan_no_surrender_01.shtml
McCullough, David. Truman. Simon & Schuster, 1992.
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