Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / J. Samuel Walker
  • Ketsu go: Japanese political and military strategy in 1945 / Richard B. Frank
  • Truman, Hiroshima, and the morality of the atomic bomb / Wilson D. Miscamble
  • On President Truman's use of the atomic bomb: momentum, timing, and General Groves / Robert S. Norris
  • Harry S. Truman and the origins of the nuclear arms race / Martin V. Melosi
  • Radioisotopes as political instruments from Truman to Eisenhower / Angela N. H. Creager
  • Triumph and trouble in the first temple of the atom: the Atomic Energy Commission and the Raleigh Research Reactor / Thomas R. Wellock
  • The decision to drop the bomb and Truman's nuclear legacy: concluding remarks / William Lanouette.