On the evening of April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman was sworn in as the 33rd US President. Just a few hours earlier, his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, died of brain hemorrhage. There were exhausting weeks and months before Truman. From Germany, new horror reports have always been made about liberated concentration camps. The Battle of Okinawa raged in Far East. In San Francisco, the United States negotiated with the Soviet Union on the founding of the United Nations. In Potsdam, he discussed the post -war order in Europe with Stalin and Churchill. And then there was this strange new super weapon, the development of which had devoured huge amounts, but, according to the experts, they would be able to end the war with Japan immediately – if it really worked.
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