Truman and the Bomb

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Adults
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Historian Tom Egan will discuss the many aspects that went into President Harry Truman’s decision to use the first atomic weapon to bring an end to World War II in the Pacific. This lecture includes a discussion of the events in the Pacific that led to the decision, and the fallout of the decision as it pertains to our relationship with the Soviet Union in the decades following the war.