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2025
December 2025
 9Cover of The Most Awful Responsibility by Alex Wellerstein
News and Notes
New book: The Most Awful Responsibility
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Manhattan Project
2022
May 2022
 6
Redactions
Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 2)
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
2021
June 2021
14
Redactions
The leak that brought the H-bomb debate out of the cold
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, Congress, David E. Lilienthal, H-bomb, Harry S. Truman, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Leaks
2020
July 2020
16
Meditations
What if the Trinity test had failed?
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Counterfactuals, Harry S. Truman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project, Trinity, Truman
June 2020
 9
Meditations
What journalists should know about the atomic bombings
Tags: 1940s, 1990s, 2020s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Soviet Union
2018
January 2018
19
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A "purely military" target? Truman's changing language about Hiroshima
Tags: 1940s, Archives, Harry S. Truman, Henry L. Stimson, Hiroshima, Kyoto
2016
November 2016
18
Meditations
The President and the Bomb
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Command and control, David E. Lilienthal, Harry S. Truman, Leslie R. Groves, President and the Bomb
September 2016
30
Redactions
FDR and the bomb
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Germany, Harry S. Truman, Japan, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
May 2016
27
Meditations
Obama visits Hiroshima
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1980s, 2010s, Barack Obama, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima
2014
August 2014
 8
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The Kyoto misconception
Tags: 1940s, Harry S. Truman, Henry L. Stimson, Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie R. Groves, Nagasaki
February 2014
14
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Leo Szilard, war criminal?
Tags: 1940s, Books, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Leo Szilard, Leslie Groves, Soviet Union
2013
August 2013
 9
Meditations
Why Nagasaki?
Tags: 1940s, Fat Man, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves, Little Boy, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki
March 2013
 8
Meditations | Redactions
The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Consensus View?
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Soviet Union
2012
June 2012
18
Meditations
What If Truman Hadn't Ordered the H-bomb Crash Program?
Tags: 1950s, Bomb design, Counterfactuals, H-bomb, Harry S. Truman, Nuclear testing, Soviet Union
13
Redactions
The Ivy MIKE leak
Tags: 1950s, Atomic Energy Commission, Dwight D. Eisenhower, FBI, H-bomb, Harry S. Truman, Leaks, Restricted Data
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