Today’s episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and The Media & Education Center.

 

We are going back to 2020, when Dr. Ed Lengel, then the Museum’s Senior Director of Programs, hosted a webinar with President Harry Truman’s grandson - Clifton Truman Daniel -  and Paul Sparrow, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Director.

 

They presented Roosevelt’s and Truman’s roles in the Manhattan Project 

and the dramatic race for atomic power. 

 

The Manhattan Project’s success would have been impossible without President Roosevelt’s committed leadership, and President Truman’s decision to employ the weapons.

 

This culminated in the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945. 

 

If you would like to view the original conversation, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/9f67sx2moBE