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Did president Roosevelt agree with president Truman with dropping the bomb?
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- Roosevelt made the decision to make the atomic bomb on October 9, 1941.
- As the Manhattan Project progressed Roosevelt followed developments with the assumption that the atomic bombs would be used "as made ready".
- Roosevelt died and when Truman is briefed on the atomic bomb he decides to change nothing.
- After the first two bombs are dropped on Japan and they indicate they will surrender, Truman makes the only decisionentirely his own about the atomic bomb during WW2 and orders the bombing stopped.
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∙ 15y agoTruman was president when the decision was made, FDR had passed away.
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∙ 14y agoIt was not FDR who gave the go-ahead for the atomic bomb to be used. FDR had died a few months earlier. Harry Truman was President, and he approved its use.
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The moment Stimson informed him that the project to build atomic bombs existed and that Franklin D. Roosevelt had already issued orders for the Army to plan to use them on Japan, after Truman was sworn in as president following Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Truman saw no reason to change these plans.
Did President Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
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