Lewis Strauss
In the 1930s, Strauss joined many American Jewish groups. He helped raised money to help Jewish refugees come to the United States to save them from the Nazis.  Strauss also joined the United States Navy in the Second World War . In the Navy, he helped make weapons.  After the war, President Harry S Truman hired Strauss to lead the Atomic Energy Commission.  Strauss told Truman to develop a hydrogen bomb because the Soviet Union had an atomic bomb but Dr. Robert Oppenheimer thought he should not have done that.