Countdown to Hiroshima, for July 25, 1945: Truman Claims It's Purely 'Military' Target

Over the next two weeks here I will count down the days to the atomic bombing of Japan (August 6 and August 9, 1945), marking events from the same day in 1945. I've written hundreds of article and three books on the subject: Hiroshima in America (with Robert Jay Lifton), Atomic Cover-Up (on the decades-long suppression of shocking film shot in the atomic cities by the U.S. military) and Hollywood Bomb (the wild story of how an MGM 1947 drama was censored by the military and Truman himself). For openers, here's my entry for July 25, 1945, plus the two days before that: July 25: Still at Potsdam, Germany, where he has gone to meet with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, President Harry S....