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When [[World War II]] threatened, President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] turned over the war department to Stimson, realizing the need for a bipartisan military policy. (For Secretary of the Navy he chose Frank Knox, the 1936 GOP [[vice presidentialpresident]] ial candidate). Stimson brought business leaders to Washington. As Secretary of War during [[World War II]] he took a hard line against Nazi and Japanese aggression. During the war he was responsible for supplying soldiers and weapons to the Army and Air Force. He promoted the growth of military industries, and reorganize the War Department and expanded it to 12 million men and women.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-l-stimson</ref> More than anyone he controlled the atomic bomb project, including its high priority construction and the decision to use it against Japan to end the war without millions more American or Japanese deaths.