What code word was used to inform Truman that the atomic bomb test was successful?
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"It's a boy" if it was successful
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. — Harry Truman\n\nThis is the correct quote. It was in a interview with William Hillman.\n\nJournalist and news commentator; editor of Mr. President (1952); assistant to Harry S. Truman in various writing projects, including Truman's Memoirs (1955-56) and Mr. Citizen (1960). \n\nThe papers of William Hillman mostly document his association with Harry S. Truman and his work as editor and assistant to Mr. Truman in the writing and publication of Mr. President (1952), Memoirs (1955-56), Mr. Citizen (1960), and a number of syndicated newspaper and magazine articles. The collection also contains materials relating to proposed publishing and television projects involving the former President, and Hillman's role as Truman's literary agent and adviser. Also documented is Truman's work, with the assistance of Hillman and David Noyes, on a history of the U.S. Presidency that was never finished. The papers include manuscript drafts in various stages of completion, interview transcripts, research materials, correspondence, handwritten notes, printed materials, press releases, and other items.
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It actually came from the war it was a code that meant zero killed... \nSimply amazing isnt it..\nwho would ever guessed that that abbreviation would come into  every day conversation..
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In 1942 the Manhattan Engineer Project was set up in the United States under the command of Brigadier General Leslie Groves. Scientists recruited to produce an atom bomb included Robert Oppenheimer (USA), David Bohm (USA), Leo Szilard (Hungary), Eugene Wigner (Hungary), Rudolf Peierls (Germany), Otto Frisch (Germany), Niels Bohr (Denmark), Felix Bloch (Switzerland), James Franck (Germany), James Chadwick (Britain), Emilio Segre (Italy), Enrico Fermi (Italy), Klaus Fuchs (Germany) and Edward Teller (Hungary). \n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmanhattan.htm\n\nThe Manhattan Project took over control of U.S. fission research, which had begun in 1939, starting in the fall of 1942, and resulted in the design, production, and detonation of three nuclear bombs in 1945. The first, using plutonium made at the Hanford, Washington, plant, was tested on July 16 as "Trinity", the world's first nuclear test, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The second, an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy", was detonated on August 6, over Hiroshima, Japan. The third, another plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man", was detonated on August 9, over Nagasaki, Japan.\n\nThe primary sites of the project exist today as Hanford Site, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the National Security Complex and several other plants. The MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947.\n\nAt its peak in 1945, the Project employed over 130,000 people, and cost a total of nearly $2 billion USD.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
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The CIA came into existance under Truman in 1947
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Eisenhower spoke at the dedication of the Robert A. Taft Memorial Bell tower.  \n\nThe day before that, on April 13, a letter was delivered in Moscow from Eisenhower to Khrushchev about the discontinuation of nuclear weapons testing - could this be the issue you are looking for?  I have attached a copy of that letter.  I hope this helps.
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Yes, it was one of his favorite photo props. According to the Truman Presidential Library (who have the sign in their collection), the sign was made at the request of a friend of Truman, by the inmates of a Federal Prison.
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The title is the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise was achieved (using a repetition of the Japanese word for tiger, though whether this meaning was specifically intended is unknown). \n\nAnd its spelled TORA
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'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'\nthe cypher is one letter before, one letter after on alternate letters, i figured it out using the word 'for' which appeared twice- the word for was obvious but at first i thought you'd got the code wrong, it seemed unusual!!! went back to the top and tried it out from there! well done, i enjoyed that
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Tomahawk missle, perhaps? F-14 Tomcat Fighter? Can you give a little more context to the clue?
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Pronounced "NE-OL".  This is from the code-talkers dictionary used in WWII.
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Word History \nOK is a quintessentially American term that has spread from English to many other languages. Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts. OK is first recorded in 1839 but was probably in circulation before that date. During the 1830s there was a humoristic fashion in Boston newspapers to reduce a phrase to initials and supply an explanation in parentheses. Sometimes the abbreviations were misspelled to add to the humor. OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct. Originally spelled with periods, this term outlived most similar abbreviations owing to its use in President Martin Van Buren's 1840 campaign for reelection. Because he was born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and the abbreviation proved eminently suitable for political slogans. That same year, an editorial referring to the receipt of a pin with the slogan O.K. had this comment: “frightful letters … significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, ‘all correct’ .... Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions … to make all things O.K.”\n\nOK \nfrom American English\nThis word originated in United States\n\nAmerica's greatest contribution to the English language and indeed to languages all over the world is a joke. Or at least that's how it began.\n\nIn the summer of 1838 newspaper columnists in Boston thought nothing funnier than to reduce a phrase to its initials (with an explanation in parentheses). Allen Walker Read, the premier historian of our most famous expression, found this example in the Boston Morning Post of June 12, 1838: "We understand that J. Eliot Brown, Esq., Secretary of the Boston Young Men's Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Indians, F.A.H. (fell at Hoboken, N.J.) on Saturday last at 4 o'clock, p.m. in a duel W.O.O.O.F.C. (with one of our first citizens.) What measures will be taken by the Society in consequence of this heart rending event, R.T.B.S. (remains to be seen)."\n\nTo add to the humor, columnists sometimes misspelled the abbreviations. One 1838 example was O.W., meaning "all right," with blatant misspellings of both initial letters. That set the stage for an even more outrageous misspelling in March 1839: O.K., translated as "all correct." The joke was that neither O nor K was correct.\n\nO.K. might have died out with O.W., R.T.B.S., and the rest of the laughable abbreviations if "Old Kinderhook," President Martin Van Buren (born in Kinderhook, New York), hadn't running for reelection in 1840. "O.K. clubs" supporting him were established throughout the country. Old Kinderhook lost, but O.K. won a permanent place in American English.\n\nUntil about 1900, however, O.K. remained obscure. Even Mark Twain apparently never used it. But the twentieth century turned out to be an OK century, perhaps encouraged by scholarly President Woodrow Wilson's use of "okeh" on official documents. (He spelled it "okeh" because he mistakenly thought it came from the Choctaw Indian language.) It was streamlined, too, in this century, increasingly written without the periods that mark it as a mock abbreviation. We now live in an OK world where it is difficult to imagine a conversation or a computer session without frequent use of OK.\n\nOK\nOrigin: 1839\n\nIs it a word, a phrase, an abbreviation, an acronym? Do you spell it O.K., OK, o.k., or okay? Any way, it's OK. This most uncategorizable of Americanisms is categorically the most successful of all time. OK is "all correct."\n\nThat was its original meaning, an in-your-face misspelling of the first letters of all and correct. In 1839, when we f
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Originally, "ACT" stood for American College Testing. In 1996, however, the official name of the organization was shortened to simply "ACT."
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There are two basic types of atomic bomb. The gun type was used over Hiroshima and used U-235. The compression type is more common now and was used over Nagasaki and used Pu-239.
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Hiroshima was nuked, you need to rephrase your question.
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The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan were on cities with no significant military targets. I had family on both sides of WWII and lost family on both sides. Dropping the atomic bombs took a lot of consideration from the government back then and decided that it was the only option they had to avoid large scale death invading, both to the US and to Japanese civilians. If it had to be done, then I agree with you, why not a legitimate target? Pearl Harbor was a military target attack by "surprise". The Japanese officials who were to deliver the notice of war that morning were delayed in a US waiting room and were not able to deliver the notice prior to the attack. War history is written by the victors, so it was a surprise. To rally America into war, the President called it a surprise in his radio address. I ask any of you to take a trip to Hiroshima and visit the museum. My mother's family was on the other side of the mountain range from Nagasaki and that is what saved them, but they did witness the cloud, had some affect of the fire, and saw the destruction when they went to help. Japan's research at the time determined that the bomb was not possible with the technology available, so they did not believe the US's claim they had it. Japan was negotiating for surrender after the first but the US want unconditional, so dropped the second. I understand the decision to drop, just not the target.\n\nPaulHalloway-I do disagree with you on the legitemacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being military targets. May 1945 the target committee listed Hiroshima as a class AA target using year old inteligence. The depot had been moved in Oct 1944. Nagasaki was never on the Target committee's list. The only other reason for Hiroshima to be targeted was the terrain and larger city. Mountains around Hiroshima would increase the affects of the blast and the size of the city  would allow that if the bomb was off target, would still cause mass distruction and casualties. It was also in the original plan recommendation to follow the bombing by an incendiary bombing of the city. Also the orders from Gen Spaatz on July 1945, identified the city as the target, not any military base, contrary to Truman's direction to Sec. of War Stimson.