 Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest...  World War II: An Encyclopedia of Quotationseditado por - 1999 - 449 páginasPré-visualização indisponível - Acerca deste livro
 | United States. Department of State - 1946 - 304 páginas
...1 Statement by the President of the United States, August 6, 1945 . THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, DC Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare. The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. War Department - 1946 - 60 páginas
...American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT It...largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare". rhese fateful words of the President on August 6th, 19^5 , marked the first public announcement of... | |
 | United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) - 1961 - 718 páginas
...TRUMAN 196 93 Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima. August 6, 1945 SIXTEEN HOURS AGO an American airplane dropped one...largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare. The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end... | |
 | Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers - 1966 - 516 páginas
...leveled. On 7 August President Truman electrified the world with a broadcast statement which declared : Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT .... With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement... | |
 | Kurt Vonnegut - 2009 - 286 páginas
...that he was a superman. So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an imponant Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons ofT.NT It had more than two... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - 1971 - 1530 páginas
...Sept. 9. At Nanking, Japanese sign formal surrender of forces in China. Address to the nation, 1945 Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. . . . With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement... | |
 | Lenore Fine, Jesse Arthur Remington - 1972 - 776 páginas
...Mission At a quarter of eleven on the morning of 6 August 1945, the White House solemnly announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base." More powerful than 20,000 tons of TNT, the bomb was an atomic bomb capable of wiping out whole cities.1... | |
 | Harold Josephson - 1974 - 348 páginas
...in history." His message to the nation made the evening newspapers. "Sixteen hours ago," he began, "an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...British 'Grand Slam' which is the largest bomb ever used in the history of warfare. ... It is an atomic bomb. It is the harnessing of the basic power of... | |
 | Geoffrey Perret - 1985 - 516 páginas
...Potsdam Conference. In his flat, Midwestern voice Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago (on August 6) an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb, harnessing the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest... | |
 | Geoffrey Perret - 1985 - 516 páginas
...Potsdam Conference. In his flat, Midwestern voice Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago (on August 6) an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb, harnessing the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest... | |
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