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...committee chairman, Conant served as a liaison between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the scientists working on the bomb. When Harry S. Truman became President, the committee unanimously recommended that the atomic bomb be dropped without warning on Japan...
...time I felt that the decision of the President to drop the bomb was correct," Conant said yesterday. "Colonel Stimpson, then Secretary of War, got the opinion of the committee on whether there was any other way to demonstrate successfully the terrible power of the atomic bomb to end the war. I thought there was no other way, and I have no regrets about that decision...
After the war, Conant was appointed to the General Advisory Commission, where he, along with J. Robert Oppenheimer and other committee members, advised against the development of the hydrogen bomb...
...were overruled, and today Iam inclined to agree that we were wrong," Conant said. "When we made the recommendation, we thought there was a very small chance that the bomb would work. A new development [introduced by Edward M. Teller] made it a much more straightforward thing. I at least had hoped that the President and Secretary Acheson might have used the threat of developing an atomic bomb to force weapons control negotiations with the Russians, but looking back, that may have been a utopian point of view...
...specialist in organic chemistry, Conant worked as an Army major during World War 1 on manufacturing a poison gas. "Chemical warfare strikes me as having a nuisance value, not as being a very effective weapon. Both sides are better off not using...