Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the President of the United States of America during the final months of World War II and the first years of the Cold War.

Biography
As Vice president of the United States, Truman assumed the office of the presidency in 1945, after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Later that year, Truman ordered two atomic weapons (the culmination of the work of Howard Stark and other scientific minds, in what was known as the Manhattan Project) to dropped on the Japanese cities of and, bringing the war with Japan to a swift end.

Truman's picture would adorn the conference room of the Strategic Scientific Reserve's New York office in 1946.