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 .p009 Truman wasn't told about the bomb. Negligence, given Roosevelt's age, health, and the decisions ahead.

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"

  • p006 Henry Stimson Roosevelt's secretary of war

  • p009 Truman wasn't told about the bomb. Negligence, given Roosevelt's age, health, and the decisions ahead.

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

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  • p026 . ch03 - "A Blanket of Fire"

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

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  • p049 . ch05 - "A Profound Psychological Impression"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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"

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

  • 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

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  • p323 . Notes

  • p377 . Bibliography

  • p391 . Index

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