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

Language: English

Published by 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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Title
Ashes of Command : Navigating Truman's First Days and Atomic Decisions.DE
Author
Dahlia Ives
Publisher
Epubli
Publication year
2026
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Neu
Binding
Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3565406976
ISBN 13
9783565406975
Item weight
519 grams
Dimensions
297x210x12 mm

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