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Truman’s Deep Regret at the Atomic Age He Created
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Alex Wellerstein argues Truman may have been the most anti-nuclear president of the 20th century.
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A careful look at how uncertainty, advisers, and power shaped Truman's atomic decision.
This episode works best when it treats Truman's atomic decision as a problem of power, uncertainty, and partial information. It keeps the focus on the shifting influence around Truman, with Stimson and Burns in view, and on the absence of any clean, formal handoff of…
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You want the decision behind the bomb, not a slogan about it.
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