Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 03 1131-03-p081

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ae, a ~ Petal ES ah 36 release for President Truman announcing that the Soviets had tested their first atomic bomb in 1949, (several years earlier than it had been predicted that such an event would take place) and an extraordinarily significant announcement. Obviously, his military career had not been harmed. It is unreasonable to expect that this high level group of people, in terms of security (all of the officers were hand-picked men), would not be told that "It's ours. You don't have a...