Adviser Quote by Lee Iacocca

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler,…

— Martin Niemoller

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.

— Bobby Knight

“Contrary to Stimson’s highly influential but totally misleading account in Harper’s in February 1947, “The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb”—written for Stimson by…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

— Stephen Ambrose

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

— Harry S Truman

“I do not know the substance of the considerations and recommendations which Dr. Szilárd proposes to submit to you,” Einstein wrote. “The terms of…

— Walter Isaacson

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

— Anonymous

“Dropping a nuclear weapon was never a good idea.”

— Eric Schlosser

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

— Lord Mountbatten

“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began to try…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

“He and Willoughby preferred that the Pentagon and the Truman administration be completely dependent upon them for any information about what was going on…

— David Halberstam

“As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any…

— David McCullough