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Franklin Roosevelt was not there, because he had died two months earlier and been replaced by his Vice President, Harry Truman. This was Truman's first encounter with Churchill and Stalin. Germany had been defeated, and the Conference was held just outside Berlin. The US and Britain had gone from being uneasy Allies with the Soviet Union to a much more confrontational relationship by that time. Truman got the word while at Potsdam that the nuclear bomb had been successfully tested, and issued the Potsdam Declaration to Japan, warning them to surrender immediately or face "prompt and utter destruction", "the like of which the world has never seen". The Japanese did not reply.

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