May 31

Pentagon, Washington, D.C. • May 31, 1945 On this date in 1945 a special group met in the Pen­ta­gon to search for an alter­na­tive to dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. The group had been called into exis­tence by the new Ameri­can presi­dent, Harry S. Tru­man. Neither Truman nor any­one else in the room knew…