By Rick Shockey
One of the hardest decisions that had to be made by any United States President was the decision to deploy the world’s first atomic bomb to force an enemy combatant into surrender. That historic decision faced Harry S. Truman, our Thirty-Third President, in the final months of 1945 and that enemy was the Empire of Japan. Truman was given that responsibility due to the untimely death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in April of that same year. Roosevelt had led America through the early part of World War II and now his Vice President would take center stage in the world conflict.
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