“A short time ago an American airplane dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy,” President Harry Truman said in a somber statement on August 6, 1945.  Previously, as chairman of the United States Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, he had ordered certain investigations called off when he was told that the U.S. Army was working on a project that needed to remain secret.  “Both science and industry worked under the direction of the United States Army,” said Truman, delivering his statement. Continue reading →