The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age - Hardcover
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The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
"I thought I knew the story but learned much that I didn't know. Outstanding!"-- Richard Rhodes
"This is historical research at its best." -- Dan Carlin
President Truman's choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. But what if Truman's actual decision wasn't what everyone thinks it was?
The conventional narrative is that American leaders had a choice: Invade...
Alex Wellerstein is an Associate Professor in the Science and Technology Studies program at the Stevens Institute of Technology and a visiting researcher at the Nuclear Knowledges program, Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, and he has written for The New Yorker, ...
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