Franklin D. Roosevelt is a better fit for an administrative nuclear program "founder" analogy.

Truman was totally in the dark until April 1945 by which time the bulk of the PoC and weapons prep work was done and the project was running fully independently w/o POTUS involvement.

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emodendroket 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yet the guys in the lab coats worked for him.

	▲	defrost 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not for the bulk of the Manhattan project and not all the people in lab coats .. the intellectual founders that repeatedly pushed for the project and demonstrated feasibility weren't even US citizens.