My understanding is that there’s a larger pattern of behavior here by Oppenheimer, which Truman might not’ve known about but which influences my guess about Oppenheimer’s tone that day and the surrounding context. Was Truman particularly famous for wanting sole credit on other occasions?
It’d be weird for him to take sole credit; he only established full presidential control of nuclear weapons afterward. He didn’t even know about the second bomb until after it dropped.
My understanding is that there’s a larger pattern of behavior here by Oppenheimer, which Truman might not’ve known about but which influences my guess about Oppenheimer’s tone that day and the surrounding context. Was Truman particularly famous for wanting sole credit on other occasions?
It’d be weird for him to take sole credit; he only established full presidential control of nuclear weapons afterward. He didn’t even know about the second bomb until after it dropped.