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Obama Hiroshima trip stirs debate on Truman’s fateful choice

by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima next week has reignited an emotive debate over former US president Harry Truman’s epoch-making decision to drop the first atomic bomb. On April 25, 1945, thirteen days after Franklin Roosevelt’s death thrust Truman into the White House, the strained new commander-in-chief got a startling top secret briefing. “Within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon […]