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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"

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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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