 | United States. Department of State - Nuclear energy - 1946 - 308 pages
...Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." 4 The President added a brief account of the allied efforts to develop atomic energy. By 1942,... | |
 | United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) - Presidents - 1961 - 718 pages
...Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such numbers and power as they have... | |
 | Richard F. Haynes - History - 1999 - 372 pages
...Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.40 Seventy-five hours after the attack on Hiroshima, the seaport of Nagasaki was atom-bombed.... | |
 | Sheila K. Johnson - History - 1991 - 212 pages
...Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the like of which has never been seen on this earth."' The following day the New York Times reported Curtis LeMay as saying that if the same weapon... | |
 | Michael S. Sherry - Technology & Engineering - 1987 - 482 pages
..."found." There was the overt rationale of using the bomb to end the war, Truman promising a further "rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been on this earth" if Japan did not surrender. At the same time, there was a scarcely veiled agenda of... | |
 | Philip L. Cantelon, Richard G. Hewlett, Robert Chadwell Williams - History - 1991 - 396 pages
...Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such numbers and power as they have... | |
 | Sylvia Whitman - History - 1993 - 88 pages
...city of Hiroshima, Japan. If the Japanese "do not now accept our terms," Truman announced, "they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth We have spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history — and won."... | |
 | Alan Nadel - Art - 1995 - 356 pages
...mutated into divine purification: "If [the Japanese leaders] do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth" (US Dept. of State, International, 8). Atomic power was totalizing and miniscule, secreted and... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - History - 2012 - 890 pages
...atomic bomb "the greatest achievement of organized science in history" and threatened the Japanese with "a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." In Chicago on Quadrangle Club stationery Szilard scribbled a hasty letter to Gertrud Weiss:... | |
 | Karl Simms - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 348 pages
...intonation patterns and rhythms of religious incantation: [E] If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the like of which has never been seen on this earth. (Cited in Lee 1992.) The problem stems from the fact that neither managing, religiosity, nor... | |
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It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of... 
