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Truman and the bomb : the untold story /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giangreco, D. M., 1952- (Author)
Other Authors: Kuehn, John T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Truman, Harry S., > 1884-1972.
World War, 1939-1945 > Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Atomic bomb > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1953.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
United States > Military policy > Decision making.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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