General Leslie R. Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project which was so named because that was where his office originally was.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the US at the time the Manhattan Project.
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MilitaryMilitary leaders in World War II were eager to end the war, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, president at the time World War II, was slightly interested in the idea of the atomic bomb but most of their effort and funding was put into the military. Once the atomic bomb started to become feasible the military took control of the project. As the project progressed it was kept in complete secrecy. The leaders of the united states justified this by saying they were preventing other countries from discovering the work on the atomic bomb. In 1945 Franklin Roosevelt died. Harry S. Truman was sworn in as president and was informed of the classified bomb making. He made the final decision to drop the atomic bomb. He gave a speech after the bomb was dropped justifying the dropping of the bomb and even saying he would do it again. In this speech he implies that none or very little citizens when in fact over 50,000 people were killed. The radiation effects from the bomb would kill many more later. The military leaders involved in the making and dropping of the atomic bomb had no regrets. The believed the that american lives saved due of the bombing was worth the Japanese lives ended due to the bombing.
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