Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum
Albert Einstein to Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 25, 1945 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman
April 24, 1945 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
May 9, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Log of the Interim Committee of the Manhattan Project
May 9, 1945 View (17 pages) | (PDF)
J. A. Darry to Leslie R. Groves
May 12, 1945 View (7 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
May 14, 1945 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
May 18, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
May 31, 1945 View (17 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
June 1, 1945 View (10 pages) | (PDF)
Diary entries
June 1, 1945 View (6 pages) | (PDF)
Minutes of Meeting held at the White House
June 18, 1945 View (45 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
June 21, 1945 View (8 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
July 6, 1945 View (5 pages) | (PDF)
Notes by Harry S. Truman on the Potsdam Conference
July 16, 1945 View (10 pages)
Notes by Harry S. Truman on the Potsdam Conference
July 17, 1945 View (9 pages) | (PDF)
Petition to the President of the United States
July 17, 1945 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Leslie. R. Groves to Henry Stimson
July 18, 1945 View (14 pages) | (PDF)
Notes of Meeting of the Interim Committee
July 19, 1945 View (8 pages) | (PDF)
Memo for the Record, Manhattan Project
July 20, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
John Stone to General Arnold
July 24, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman, with handwritten Truman reply on reverse
July 30, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Draft statement on the dropping of the bomb
July 30, 1945 View (8 pages) | (PDF)
Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman, with attached draft press release
July 31, 1945 View (13 pages) | (PDF)
Press release by the White House
August 6, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Memoranda re: Manhattan Project
August 6, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Press release by Henry Stimson
August 6, 1945 View (7 pages)
Translation of leaflet dropped on the Japanese (AB-11)
August 6, 1945 View (1 page)
Translation of leaflet dropped on the Japanese
August 6, 1945 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Telegram, Richard Russell to Harry S. Truman
August 7, 1945 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
Harry S. Truman to Richard Russell
August 9, 1945 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Correspondence between Harry S. Truman and Samuel Cavert
August 11, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Matthew J. Connelly to James Byrnes, with attached Leo Szilard letter
September 6, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Memo by George Harrison
September 8, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Memo re: Russia and the atomic bomb
September 11, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman, accompanied by a memorandum
September 11, 1945 View (8 pages) | (PDF)
Memorandum by George Harrison
September 14, 1945 View (2 pages)
Memoranda for the record
September 14, 1945 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
Memoranda of conversation
September 25, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Memo of conversation with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Dean Acheson
September 25, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Clinton P. Anderson to Harry S. Truman
September 25, 1945 View (5 pages) | (PDF)
Kenneth McKellar to Harry S. Truman, accompanied by a report
September 27, 1945 View (7 pages) | (PDF)
Philip Fleming to Harry S. Truman
September 28, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Memorandum of conversation
October 3, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Memoranda from discussions
October 3, 1945 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
Memoranda for the files
October 11, 1945 View (7 pages) | (PDF)
Memorandum of meeting
October 17, 1945 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Memoranda for the files
November 1, 1945 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Memoranda from meetings
November 10, 1945 View (9 pages) | (PDF)
Press release
February 4, 1946 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
Press release re: Operation Crossroads
May 13, 1946 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
"The Decision for Peace", excerpt from report of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey
ca. June, 1946 View (8 pages) | (PDF)
U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
June 19, 1946 View (51 pages) | (PDF)
Franklin D'Olier to Harry S. Truman, with related material
June 20, 1946 View (3 pages)
"United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
June 30, 1946 View (45 pages) | (PDF)
United States Strategic Bombing Survey
July 1, 1946 View (34 pages) | (PDF)
United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Japan's Struggle to End the War
July 1, 1946 View (59 pages) | (PDF)
Press release
August 2, 1946 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Harry S. Truman to Roman Bohnen
December 12, 1946 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Harry S. Truman to Karl Compton
December 16, 1946 View (1 page) | (PDF)
"The Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon"
June 30, 1947 View (39 pages) | (PDF)
"Soviet Intentions and Capabilities"
February 20, 1950 View (20 pages) | (PDF)
"The Atomic Bomb" by Eben Ayers
ca. 1951 View (7 pages) | (PDF)
"Truman and the Atom Bomb"
ca. 1951 View (5 pages) | (PDF)
Diary entry by Eben Ayers
August 6, 1951 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Correspondence between Harry S. Truman and James Cate, with attached White House memos
December 6, 1952 View (17 pages) | (PDF)
Thomas Murray to Harry S. Truman
January 16, 1953 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
Harry S. Truman to Thomas Murray
January 19, 1953 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Notes regarding June 18, 1945 meeting
June 7, 1954 View (3 pages) | (PDF)
Excerpt from Transcript of Interview with former President Truman
ca. 1955 View (2 pages) | (PDF)
"The Atomic Bomb", third draft
ca. 1955 View (6 pages) | (PDF)
"Tentative chronology of part played by scientists in decision to use the bomb against Japan"
May 29, 1957 View (6 pages) | (PDF)
Handwritten notes by former President Truman
ca. 1958 View (7 pages)
Correspondence between Tsukasa Nitoguri and Harry S. Truman
March 12, 1958 View (4 pages) | (PDF)
Harry S. Truman to Irv Kupcinet
August 5, 1963 View (1 page) | (PDF)
Harry S. Truman to Mrs. Haydon Klein, Jr.
August 4, 1964 View (1 page) | (PDF)
"Collection and Identification of Fission Products of Foreign Origin" by Peter King and N. Friedman
Not Dated View (11 pages) | (PDF)
Atomic bomb blast.
This collection focuses on the decision to drop the atomic bomb. It includes 76 documents totaling 632 pages covering the years 1945 through 1964. Supporting materials include an online version of “Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History,” edited by Robert H. Ferrell.
