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More than he knew, "Give-'em-hell" Harry Truman was quite faithful to his predecessor's set policy. During the Allied leaders' Potsdam Conference in July 1945, Truman learned that the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex., had been a success, enabling him to tell the Russians, as Churchill put it, "just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt...
...NOVA Series, March 9, 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.). It is no secret that ounces of plutonium-a byproduct of nuclear power reactors-could be used to produce a homemade atom bomb. To demonstrate that possibility NOVA commissioned a 20-year-old undergraduate chemistry student to try to design an A-bomb in five weeks, working alone and using only published information available to the general public. The result: a blueprint for a plutonium bomb with an estimated destructive capability of 100 to 1,000 tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease with which...
...A-Bomb Race. Just how mysterious is now told in this biography, which claims that Moe Berg was not only the smartest man who ever wore spikes but also the U.S.'s most important atomic spy during World War II. Working for OSS in Switzerland and behind enemy lines, Berg gathered information that determined Germany's progress toward building a nuclear bomb. He was also able to learn the whereabouts of labs and reactors and the identities of Hitler's leading atomic scientists. The authors raise the possibility that Berg may even have assassinated...
...Unquiet Death of Jullus and Ethel Rosenberg. An examination of the Rosenberg A-bomb case, using newsreel footage and trial transcripts to explore some of the moral and legal questions involved. Ch. 44, 9 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...
...will be up to the already burdened International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry to settle the issue. The union still has not determined who first made elements 104 and 105, for which each side has filed claims and names. The Russians are calling 104 "kurchatovium" (after their A-bomb pioneer, Igor Kurchatov) and 105 "niels bohrium" (for the famed Danish physicist). Americans have dubbed 104 "rutherfordium" (after the English scientist Ernest Rutherford) and 105 "hahnian" (for German Chemist Otto Hahn, who discovered nuclear fission...