Character: Harry Truman

Truman accepted Oppenheimer only in October 1945. He asked the scientist when, in his opinion, the Russians will be able to develop their own atomic bomb? Oppenheimer hesitated to answer. Then Truman himself answered his own question: "Never." Struck by the incompetence of the president in such an important matter and realizing what it threatens, Oppenheimer squeezed out of himself: "Mr. President, I feel that there is blood on my hands" ... Truman got angry. I told him there was blood on my hands and not to worry about it. After the meeting, Truman told Dean Acheson, "I don't want to see that son of a bitch in my office anymore." Oppenheimer was later attacked by conservatives who considered him an agent of the Soviet Union. He was repeatedly summoned to the FBI for questioning. And in 1954, they were deprived of access to secret work. His crime in the eyes of the American authorities was that he opposed the creation of a new hydrogen bomb, which he considered a weapon of genocide.

But President Truman's intolerance was born long before reports of Japanese atrocities appeared. Будучи ещё молодым человеком, он писал своей жене: «Ни один человек не лучше другого, если он честен и порядочен, не ниггер и не китаец. Uncle Will said that God created a white man out of dust, a black man out of dirt, and then threw up what was left and it turned out to be a Chinese.

Missouri Senator Harry Truman told the Senate in 1941: “If we see Germany winning, we must help Russia, and if Russia wins, we will help Germany. And let them kill each other as much as possible.”