We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

As Secretary of State (1929–1933) under Republican President Herbert Hoover he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. Roosevelt. During World War II he took charge of raising and training 13 million soldiers and airmen supervised the spending of a third of the nation's GDP on the Army and the Air Forces helped formulate military strategy and took personal control of building and using the atomic bomb.