As I understand your government the VP is just there in case the president dies and until that point serves no purpose. I think in more recent times that has changed some in that some VPs of late have been a bit more active. Given that it isn't surprising at all that others would know more than Truman, he didn't need to know. Groves and other were on the project so obviously they had to know, along with hundreds of civilians who also worked on the project.
I just finished reading Churchill's books on the war and it is interesting to see his perspective of the situation when Truman took over, and the fact that he wasn't aware of most of what was going on between the big three. There were some serious errors made at the end of the war in Europe, that lead to the soviet domination of much more of Europe than probably should have happened, and to the cold war that followed.
Terry
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