Stimson requests meeting with Truman to discuss ‘highly secret matter’ 70 years ago today (Apr 24 1945)

1940s, World War II


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(Tuesday, April 24, 1945; during World War II) — U.S. Secretary of War Henry Simson wrote a memo today to President Harry Truman about the urgent need to discuss a “highly secret matter,” the atomic bomb.