Arthur Truman was a male Human scientist in the 20th century.
Biography[]
He was born on 31 October 1912, and attended California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1934 with doctorates in chemistry, physics and nuclear medicine.
Truman worked on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer during World War II, working out of London while holding a commission with the United States Army Air Corps. His wife, whom he had married in 1942, was killed during a bombing raid in 1944, one year after accepting his commission.
Truman later worked with Edward Teller in the development of the hydrogen bomb, and in 1966 joined Project Hercules, an effort to develop enhanced fusion technology. While working on the project, Truman served as a go-between for Soviet agents attempting to compromise the Hercules test.
In 1968, Project head Diana Winters introduced Truman to Aegis agent Gary Seven and his associate Roberta Lincoln, who posed as scientists overseeing final procedures of the enhanced fusion bomb test. Truman questioned why he hadn't heard of Seven, whose credentials included Caltech, Cambridge, and MIT.
Truman received a final component needed to sabotage Hercules and hid it at the test site, but changed allegiances and tried at gunpoint to stop co-conspirator Winters from carrying through with this foreign interference. Seven immobilized him with a servo, unaware of Winters involvement. (TOS - Assignment: Earth comic: "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns")