In June of 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home. Roosevelt proposed a plan–to take over development of the atomic bomb combining it with the British program and basing it in the United States. That same month the President ordered the Army to take responsibility for producing the bomb.
Join Raymond J. Batvinis, author of Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies, as he explores the crucial reason behind the decision. This event is FREE and open to the public.
