Ashes of Command : Navigating Truman's First Days and Atomic Decisions.DE

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Epubli, 2026

3565406976 / 9783565406975

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - On April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman took the oath of office having known almost nothing of the Manhattan Project - the most consequential weapons program in human history. Within days of becoming the 33rd President of the United States, Secretary of War Henry Stimson placed before him a report that began: 'Within four months, we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history'. Truman had inherited not merely a presidency, but an unfinished war, a fractured alliance, and a decision no leader had ever faced before.This book traces the weeks and months between April and August 1945 - a span of time in which one man, unschooled in nuclear politics and pressed by the machinery of war, was forced to chart a course through moral ambiguity and geopolitical consequence. In May, Truman formed the Interim Committee to advise on atomic use; by June, its recommendation was stark: no technical demonstration, no prior warning, direct military deployment. He agreed, yet the weight of that agreement never fully left him.Ashes of Command examines the architecture of that decision - not as triumph or tragedy alone, but as a study in the loneliness of power. From the opening of the United Nations Conference on April 25, to V-E Day on May 8, to the Potsdam Declaration of July 26 and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is the story of a leader thrust into history before he had time to understand it.…

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Titolo
Ashes of Command : Navigating Truman's First Days and Atomic Decisions.DE
Autore
Dahlia Ives
Editore
Epubli
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
3565406976
ISBN 13
9783565406975
Peso dell'articolo
519 grammi
Dimensioni
297x210x12 mm

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