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[โ€“] diverging@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You failed to quote the July 25th 1945 entry

That's Truman's reaction to the trinity test and is irrelevant to when he was told about the research. Obviously he had a different reaction to the actual bomb compared to a hypothetical bomb, but I would think that would be expected.

[โ€“] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yes the first mention of atomics and the first verified point he knew the full scale of the program, I just said this.