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| "The Mushroom Cloud" that wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing 90,000–166,000 deaths of people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 deaths in Nagasaki. |
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General Paul W. Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. He was the only person on the plane who knew what was going to happen to Japan. |
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| Nagasaki's land after the atomic bomb struck. |
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| Truman poses with the surrender papers signed by the Japanese less than a week earlier on September 2, 1945. |
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| Truman writes a letter to Norman Cousins. This states how the Japanese would not surrender, forcing the U.S. to drop the bomb. Japan surrendered. |
