What news did President Truman receive from New Mexico whilst attending the conference in Potsdam?

President Harry S. Truman learned on this day in 1945 of a successful test — two days earlier — in the New Mexico desert of the world’s first atomic bomb. At the time, Truman, who had been president for just three months, was in Potsdam, a Berlin suburb, at a Big Three summit conference focused on the future of postwar Germany.

The results of the test were conveyed to Henry Stimson, the secretary of war, at the Potsdam conference in a coded message from his assistant, George Harrison: “Operated on this morning. Diagnosis not yet complete but results seem satisfactory and already exceed expectations. Local press release necessary as interest extends great distance. ... I will keep you posted.”

The message arrived at the “Little White House” in the Potsdam suburb of Babelsberg and was immediately taken to Truman and James Byrnes, the secretary of state.

Without going into details, Truman informed Josef Stalin, the Soviet premier, that the United States possessed a “new weapon of unusual destructive force.” Stalin knew about the bomb from intelligence passed along to him via covert Soviet spies who were working on the top secret project. He told Truman that he hoped the Americans would put it to good use against the crumbling Japanese empire.

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