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Why Stalin Made Impossible Demands the First Time He Met Truman - The Potsdam Test

In July 1945, Harry Truman traveled to Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate with Joseph Stalin - after only 82 days as vice president and 94 days as president. Drawing on Truman Presidential Library archives, State Department records, declassified Soviet intelligence reports, and contemporary diplomatic accounts, this documentary examines why Truman believed he could intimidate Stalin by revealing America's new atomic bomb, how Stalin already knew about the weapon through Soviet spies who had penetrated the Manhattan Project years earlier, and why Stalin's complete non-reaction on July 24, 1945, exposed that Truman's ultimate leverage was worthless. What happens when a new president discovers his ace card has already been stolen? How did underestimating your adversary's intelligence network shape the opening moves of the Cold War? The answers would define superpower relations for the next four decades.