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It was above his security level.
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This I can absolutely believe. You really think the entrenched MICC is going to give him access?
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Correct, Truman was not allowed to know about the Manhattan project until it was already viable and needed to be known.
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Truman became president on April,12 1945. He was given a full briefing on the Manhattan project on April 24,1945. That doesn’t seem like he was being kept in the dark.
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It was one of the most important and costly projects of the war, 12 days is a lifetime during a war quite literally. That’s also ignoring the fact that the vice president was kept in the dark until after FDR died and Truman took office.
