"Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know if you fellas ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me what happened yesterday, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." - Harry S. Truman on President Roosevelt’s death.
“We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark.” - diary of Harry S. Truman
"[President Truman] made the only decision he could,…to avoid tremendous sacrifice of American lives." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I knew what I was doing when I stopped the war ... I have no regrets and, under the same circumstances, I would do it again." - Harry S. Truman
"I made one great mistake in my life — when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification — the danger that the Germans would make them..." - Albert Einstein
"Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death," - Japanese radio announcer
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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