Truman and the bomb : the untold story / D. M. Giangreco ; foreword by John T. Kuehn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giangreco, D. M., 1952- author.

Contributor:

Kuehn, John T.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Truman, Harry S.

World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

Atomic bomb--United States--History--20th century.

Atomic bomb.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.

United States.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

United States--Military policy--Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Contents:

Cover Page

Donor Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Prologue

1. The Manhattan Project

2. Projects Milepost and Hula

3. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Poland

4. A New President

5. Truman's White House Meeting

6. "I've Gotten What I Came For"

Appendix A: Air-Raid Casualties and Property Damage in Japan

Appendix B: Memorandum on Ending the Japanese War

Appendix C: The Historiography of Hiroshima

Appendix D: The Manhattan Project: A Chronology of Its Expansion and Subsequent Congressional Investigations

Appendix E: "Between You, the Boss [Truman], and Me"

Appendix F: Secretary of War Henry Stimson to Truman on Atom Bomb Development

Appendix G: U.S. Navy Combatant Ships under Project Hula

Appendix H: Agreement regarding the Entry of the Soviet Union into the War against Japan

Appendix i: Secretary Stimson's Proposed Program for Japan

Appendix J: Proposal for Increasing the Scope of Casualty Studies

Appendix K: Discussion of American Casualties at President Truman's Meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Service Secretaries, June 18, 1945

Appendix L: General Thomas Handy's Atomic Bomb Authorization

Appendix M: Atomic Bomb Press Release

Appendix N: Potsdam Declaration, July 26, 1945

Appendix O: Truman-Stalin Meeting at Potsdam

Appendix P: Tripartite Military Meeting of the U.S., Soviet, and British Chiefs of Staff, July 26, 1945

Appendix Q: Planned U.S. Naval and Air Operations in Support of the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria

Appendix R: Extract from the Log of the President's Trip to the Berlin Conference, July 18, 1945

Notes

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Giangreco, D. M. Truman and the Bomb

ISBN:

9781640125940

1640125949

9781640125933

1640125930

Publisher Number:

40031852355

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