Word: sherwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precarious nuclear stalemate come about? For a generation, historians have been digging through the records of scientists and decision makers. Now, drawing on newly declassified documents, Princeton Historian Martin J. Sherwin has written a dispassionate, richly detailed account that promises, for the present at least, to be the definitive book on the formation of atomic-energy policy during World...
From the start of the Manhattan Project, says Sherwin, it was clear that an atomic bomb would be an awesome force in the postwar world. Franklin Roosevelt faced two basic options. He could reveal the project's existence (but not necessarily its details) to his ally Joseph Stalin. Or he could keep it a secret between the U.S. and Britain-which was in on the project all along-to ensure the two countries' diplomatic and military advantage...
...solemnized their agreement in a secret aide-memoire of a conversation at Hyde Park in September 1944: "The suggestion that the world should be informed regarding Tube Alloys [British code for the bomb], with a view to an international agreement regarding its control and use, is not accepted." Concludes Sherwin with characteristic understatement: "The Anglo-American leaders' publicly professed expectations for continued cooperation with the Soviet Union, it is now obvious, were somewhat less firm than has been heretofore recognized...
...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 and Truman intended to wage atomic diplomacy against the Soviets. He argues that all policymakers connected with the Manhattan Project assumed from its inception that the Bomb would be used to win the war-and that the assumption was never seriously questioned. Sherwin does...
...beard looked a little suspicious from the start, and the chest hairs were certainly of dubious origin. No wonder, since the face behind the 5 o'clock shadow belonged to Actress Karen Black, 33, who had dressed up as a male homosexual for a film by Sherwin Tilton, 22, a student at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Black, who collects up to $150,000 per picture these days, donated a spare Sunday to Tilton's project after he had asked her to be his leading lady in a $7,000 movie entitled Owen...