ISBN: 9783565406975 - ashes of command: navigating truman's first days and atomic decisions (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. 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.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Ashes of Command | Navigating Truman's First Days and Atomic [.] | Dahlia Ives | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565406975 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …