Monthly Archives: August 2020

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World (book review)

After Franklin Roosevelt passed away the next President, VP Harry Truman, was told a secret. There’s “an immense project that was underway”, Secretary of War Henry Stimson told Truman, to develop “a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power.” Author Chris Wallace writes in his book Countdown 1945, “The project was so secret—and so potentially dangerous—only a handful of people …