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Memorandum, "Truman and the Bomb"

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TRUMAN BARRY by. ARCHIVES AND RECORDS TRUMAN & THE ATOM BOMB. B.S. GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND When Truman became president on April 12, 1945, upon the death of President Roosevelt, he had no knbwledge of the actual bomb project itself and his first infomration about what was really being done came from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson on April 25th. Stimson himself, was virtual head of the project and had been during the years of its development as a military weapon. Stimson had conferred frequently with President Roosevelt during this period but his last meeting with FDR had been on March 15th. (See Stimson biography, "On Active Service." (Pg. 615). At that time He discussed a memorandum FDR had sent him from an unnamed "a istinguished public servant who was fearful lest the Manhattan (atomic( project "be a lemon'; it was an opinion common among those not fully informed. 11 The writer, alarmed at rumors of extravagance in the project, suggested they get a body of outside scientists to pass on the peject "because rumors are going around that Vannevar Bush and Jim Conant have sold the President a lemon on the subject and ought to be checked up." Stimson Tharacterized it as a "jitfery and nervous memorandum and rather silly" and he gave the President a list of scientists a_tually engaged in it.

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