Documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august of 1945 and even some from later that connect to this topic, the 60s. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when Henry Stimson, the secretary of war, writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. Now stimson had mentioned this to truman after his inauguration april 12th after fdrs death, just in passing, tells him they need to talk about it in the future. Just two weeks later, he sends this letter to truman, telling him they need to get together quickly so he can tell him in the project. You can see some interesting handwritten notes here. At the bottom what i like to point out in Harry Trumans own handw
Bombs, including a white house documents, a sketch of a test explosion. We see mr. Trumans recorded announcement that the hiroshima bomb. Explained years later why he used the weapon. The Truman Library institute provided this video. What i would like to do tonight is to show you a number of artifacts, objects, photographs, three dimensional related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each of those are going to present to digitally. We will have questions and answers on the chat box. I hope you enjoy the presentation and i will go right in and look at our first artifact which is actually from 1945, not 1945 but from april shortly after he became president. They will look at documents from july. You can see my timeline here, documents we will show you. And will try to finish off as we get into august. And later into the sixties. They connect to this topic. First information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on apri
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