How Did Truman Create The Atomic Bomb?

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The Manhattan project cost $2 billion to create the atomic bomb by a group of Allied scientist. James Conant was a scientist who played a key role in the Manhattan Project (Oxford 173). He advocated in June 1945, that President Truman should order the use of the newly completed atomic bomb on a Japanese war plant (Oxford 173). The first successful test of the atomic bomb was in New Mexico, while Truman was at the Potsdam Conference. At the Potsdam Conference he attempted to use the bomb as leverage in negotiations with Joseph Stalin; this only made the relationship between the two countries worse. Truman also complicated the end of the war with Japan when he stated at the Potsdam Conference that Japan must unconditionally surrender. MAGIC,

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