An earlier post made a point of how Henry Stimson ended up asking Harry Truman to check a proposed press release within a few hours of when the atomic bomb might have been dropped.
Further research has shown something that should have been obvious enough: The Potsdam conference, like the other Big Three conferences, was a war conference, and the Secretary of War was there.
It doesn't make the difference that large, and Stimson is still late enough according to his new schedule: If it went out at nine in the morning Potsdam time, it was still about six in the evening Japan time. The Enola Gay took off early in the morning, so (assuming a similar bombing plan) Truman had until roughly the end of an already busy work day to review it.
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