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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: most awful responsibility
    sub title: Truman and the secret struggle for control of the Atomic Age
  name:
    name part: Wellerstein, Alex
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xix, 406 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  abstract: "A history of the process for using and controlling atomic weapons during World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: "It was very clear that he knew little of the task into which he was stepping." -- Chapter 2: "Modern civilization might be completely destroyed." -- Chapter 3. "A blanket of fire." -- Chapter 4: "A decision not to upset the existing plans." -- Chapter 5: "A profound psychological impression." -- Chapter 6: "It makes presiding over the Senate seem tame." -- Chapter 7: "The target will be a purely military one." -- Chapter 8: "The greatest thing in history." -- Chapter 9: "The thought of wiping out another 100,000 people was too horrible." -- Chapter 10: "It is a dangerous thing to just give them the power and hope that they will not take advantage of it." -- Chapter 11: "I told him the blood was on my hands." -- Chapter 12: "The battle of the atom still goes on." -- Chapter 13: "It is quite possible to depopulate vast areas of the earth's surface." -- Chapter 14: "If we aren't going to use them, that doesn't make any sense." -- Chapter 15: "An atomic explosion occurred in the USSR." -- Chapter 16: "A weapon that will kill ten million people." -- Chapter 17: "We are in a hell of a mess." -- Chapter 18: "A play actor and a bunko man." -- Chapter 19: "I assume he told someone." -- Chapter 20: "That includes every weapon that we have." -- Chapter 21: "The enemy could not have marched across that radiated belt." -- Chapter 22: "Charting a course from which we cannot turn." -- Chapter 23: "We devoutly hoped that they would not have to be used."
  target audience: adult
  note: Alex Wellerstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389) and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Truman, Harry S
      name part: 1884-1972
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear weapons
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Atomic bomb
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear arms control
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  subject:
    geographic: Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
    topic: History
    temporal: Bombardment, 1945
  subject:
    geographic: Nagasaki-shi (Japan)
    topic: History
    temporal: Bombardment, 1945
  subject:
    topic: Armes nucléaires
    topic: Politique gouvernementale
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Bombe atomique
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Armes nucléaires
    topic: Contrôle
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Guerre froide
  subject:
    geographic: Hiroshima (Japon)
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 1945 (Bombardement)
  subject:
    geographic: Nagasaki (Japon)
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 1945 (Bombardement)
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / Weapons
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  classification: U264.3 .W44 2025
  classification: 355.02/170973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Most awful responsibility
    name:
      name part: Wellerstein, Alex
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
      edition: First edition
    identifier: (DLC) 2025012428
  identifier: 9780063379435
  identifier: 0063379430
  identifier: 9780063379466
  identifier: 2025012427
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250626
    record change date: 20260112221635.7
    record identifier: in00005675058
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng