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This week probably the most important chapter of that long career came from Stimson's pen, published in Harper's Magazine under the title The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...
Legitimate Weapon. In the fall of 1941 the question of atomic energy first came to his attention when President Roosevelt appointed him to a committee on atomic policy. In May 1943, Stimson was made directly responsible to the President for the administration of the entire project...
Morals & Techniques. Stimson and Roosevelt discussed the matter on March 15, 1945. That was their last conference. The next time Stimson went to the White House he went to explain the whole titanic undertaking to a man "whose only previous knowledge of our activities was that of a Senator who had loyally accepted our assurance that the matter must be kept a secret from...
...Within four months," Stimson informed President Truman, "we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history...
...Psychological Weapon." Henry Stimson searched his soul...