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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



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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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  • p306 . Conclusion


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  • p321 . Acknowledgements



  • p323 . Notes



  • p377 . Bibliography



  • p391 . Index


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