Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S. Truman, April 24, 1945

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• Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S.
  Truman, April 24, 1945; Confidential File, Truman Papers; Harry S.
  Truman Presidential Library; National Archives.
  
  

In this once secret letter to President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of
War Henry Stimson requested an urgent meeting to discuss the Manhattan
Project, the all-out effort by the Federal Government to build an atomic
bomb during World War II.



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