He also curtailed the military’s access to these new and frightening weapons. Faced with a possible third bombing, Truman immediately asserted control over the situation, declaring that more bombs could not be used without presidential approval. The day after the Nagasaki bombing, the military told Truman that they could have another bomb ready within a week. “He certainly wasn’t given any heads up about the second attack.” Alex Wellerstein, a professor of science and technology studies at Stevens Institute of Technology, says Truman might not have known about the August 9 bombing of Nagasaki in advance. “I don’t think there’s a lot of evidence that he realized that they had two bombs ready to use so quickly,” says Wellerstein, who runs a blog about nuclear security.
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