The story of how Manhattan Project workers tried to stop the atomic bombs 75 years ago
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – One month before the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, , some of the Manhattan Project's leading scientists tried to beseech President Harry S. Truman to call off the bombings. Instead, two of the administration's top officials schemed to keep the president in the dark about objections raised by the scientists, who were shocked by the fearsome destructive power of what they had created. Ultimately an assistant stamped two petitions from scientists "secret" before they ever reached the president's desk, and ...
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