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April 24 – Urgent Letter from Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman

by Darren Cole on April 24, 2011


  • Message of President Andrew Jackson nominating his cabinet, 03/06/1829 (page 2 of 2)
Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S. Truman, April 24, 1945.

Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S. Truman, April 24, 1945; Confidential File, Truman Papers; Harry S. Truman Presidential Library; National Archives.

In this once secret letter to President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of War Henry Stimson requested an urgent meeting to discuss the Manhattan Project, the all-out effort by the Federal Government to build an atomic bomb during World War II.

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