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(Wednesday, August 8, 1945, 10:45 a.m. EWT; during World War II) — Secretary of War Henry Stimson showed President Harry S. Truman aerial photographs of Hiroshima following Monday’s atomic bombing.

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Truman, who had by now returned to the White House from the Potsdam Conference in Germany, told Stimson, “This places a terrible responsibility upon myself and upon the War Department.”