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1st Atomic Weapons

United States of America · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Harry S Truman24 July 1945

Warfare / World War, 2nd

President Harry S. Truman discloses to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons, Stalin feigns little surprise; he already knows this through espionage

Names involved

Harry S Truman

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