Did you ever stop and wonder how to make a decision when you have incomplete information? This was the exact situation President Harry Truman found himself in when he sat with Allied leaders at the July 1945 Potsdam Conference. The movie Oppenheimer evokes the following question: What would a scientific liaison to President Truman have recommended to him at Potsdam following the successful testing of the first atomic bomb? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “What Did You Learn From Oppenheimer?” to see a strange path that led to answering this precise question.
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