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

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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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