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The Most Awful Responsibility

Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age

Alex Wellerstein . 2025 . 21+408 pages . 355.0217 WEL . Beaverton Lib


  • pxi . Introduction



  • p001 . ch01 - "It Was Very Clear That He Knew Little of the Task into Which He Was Stepping"



  • p016 . ch02 - "Modern Civilization Might Be Completely Destroyed"



  • p026 . ch03 - "A Blanket of Fire"



  • p035 . ch04 - "A Decision Not to Upset the Existing Plans"



  • p049 . ch05 - "A Profound Psychological Impression"



  • p058 . ch06 - "It Makes Presiding Over the Senate Seem Tame"



  • p072 . ch07 - "The Target Will Be a Purely Military One"



  • p081 . ch08 - "The Greatest Thing in History"



  • p098 . ch09 - "The Thought of Wiping Out Another 100,000 People Was Too Horrible"



  • p108 . ch10 - "It Is a Dangerous Thing to Just Give Them the Power and Hope That They Will Not Take Advantage of It"



  • p126 . ch11 - "I Told Him the Blood Was on My Hands"



  • p140 . ch12 - "The Battle of the Atom Still Goes On"



  • p152 . ch13 - "It is Quite Possible to Depopulate Vast Areas of the Earth's Surface"



  • p162 . ch14 - "If We Aren't Going to Use Them, That Doesn't Make Any Sense"



  • p176 . ch15 - "An Atomic Explosion Occurred in the Central USSR"



  • p189 . ch16 - "A Weapon That Will Kill Ten Million People"



  • p208 . ch17 - "We Are in a Hell of a Mess"



  • p221 . ch18 - "A Play Actor and a Bunko Man"



  • p230 . ch19 - "I Assume He Told Someone"



  • p241 . ch20 - "That Includes Every Weapon That We Have"



  • p254 . ch21 - "The Enemy Could Not Have Marched Across That Radiated Belt"



  • p262 . ch22 - "Charting A Course From Which We Cannot Turn"



  • p282 . ch23 - "We Devoutly Hoped That They Would Not Have to Be Used"



  • p306 . Conclusion



  • p321 . Acknowledgements



  • p323 . Notes



  • p377 . Bibliography



  • p391 . Index


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