Potsdam Conference - Truman Tells Stalin about a New Weapon

President Truman attended the Potsdam Conference in Europe, and he hoped to avoid placing the atomic bomb on Japan before leaving the meeting. That is why he instructed him not to release the bomb by August 2, 1945.

In this picture, I met the President at the Potsdam Conference. Joseph Stalin, head of the Soviet Union, also attended the meeting. It is here that Truman told Stalin that the US is planning to use new weapons against Japan.

The representative of the German Potsdam Conference is preparing to leave the conference room of the Cecilienhof palace where photographers and news monitors photographers gather at the stairs. Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin talks with Secretary of State James Burns and President Harry Truman (returning to the camera)

President Truman wrote a note on the back of this picture. "I told Stalin that we wanted to let out the most powerful explosives in history, please talk - Please talk about the atomic bomb! HST". July 19, 1945

The president does not know that Stalin already knows that the US is developing nuclear bombs. A few years ago, his spy told Soviet prime minister

But at the Potsdam Conference, President Truman chose Stalin to tell America that there is "a new weapon with extraordinary destructive power." Truman's decision raised obvious questions. If he does not know, what can Truman's strategy accomplish? An announcement to Truman 's Stalin can be seen in the story of various observers. Each explains the same event, but the events are displayed in different ways for each observer. "Major politicians" Do Truman, Churchill, Burns know what they are doing? Or did they make a tragic mistake?

On the eve of the Potsdam Conference on July 16, 1945, the atomic bomb passed the test. Truman said that Stalin, and America has new weapons. Stalin's new weapons are mass killing nuclear weapons. A few days later he ordered Molotov to speed up the Soviet bomb project. This is the beginning of arms race competition and sophistication of weapons of mass destruction. For several months until the end of the Second World War, the Soviet occupation occupied central Europe and Eastern Europe. Moscow supported the efforts of the Eastern European Communist Party with its military power and crushed the Democratic Party. The Communist Party's appreciation for Moscow quickly expanded to the power and influence of all the countries of the region, and it eventually led to a coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948.

At the Potsdam Conference in late July 1945, Truman to Stalin, America said "We had a new weapon with extraordinary destructive power." According to Truman and several other observers, Stalin seems to be less interested; he said they want them to use it in Japanese. In 1953 Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the UK said, "At that time Stalin acknowledged that he had not had any special understanding of the enormous research process that the United States and Britain had been involved for a long time." James Barnes still believed in the 1960's: "Stalin is very happy that he does not understand the importance of President Truman's remarks."