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  1. Byrnes never openly threatened the Soviets with the atomic bomb. But his feelings about covert atomic diplomacy were noticed shortly after the war by Sec. of War Henry Stimson, Assistant Sec. of War John McCloy, and Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer, all of whom were worried that even an implied nuclear threat could ...

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  2. Jun 5, 2012 · Summary. A proper accounting of the development of American policy to defeat Japan and bring World War II to an end must take due note of the crucial role played by James F. Byrnes. Although he is not well-remembered today, the experienced South Carolinian possessed tremendous gifts for politics.

  3. Between draft and delivery of the document, the atomic bomb would be successfully tested, on 16th July, in the New Mexico desert. Byrnes’ editing not only gave the lie to Truman’s publicly stated aim at Potsdam to get the Soviets into the Pacific war.

  4. It was Byrnes who shared information with the new president on the atomic bomb project (until then, Truman had known nothing about the Manhattan Project). [ 34 ] In the 2023 film Oppenheimer , directed by Christopher Nolan , Byrnes was portrayed by actor Pat Skipper .

  5. Jun 5, 2012 · Summary. Harry S. Truman and James F. Byrnes had little time to catch their breath as World War II ended. Pressures and demands came at them relentlessly, and they developed policies concerning the atomic bomb in circumstances where they juggled numerous other serious issues.

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  6. In December 1945, Byrnes visited Moscow to attend a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain and the Soviet Union. These meetings finalised several post-World War II peace treaties, established the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission and clarified positions on China and Korea.

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  8. Byrnes tried to use the bomb as an implied threat in their negotiations with the Russians. When Stalin and Molotov refused to give in to this pressure, and Truman and Byrnes recognized that the bomb could not be used to assure free elections in Eastern Europe or to force Soviet evacuation of northern