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...family at a tent encampment, a dead German soldier on the road to Rome, the rough justice meted out to Nazi collaborators in France. These stinging images have become a first route of approach to understanding our era. Mydans' work also encompasses the famous faces of the age: Churchill, Truman, Nehru, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann and Ezra Pound. He caught them with an economy that satisfies the requirements of design and psychology in the same camera angle, as when he found the egg-shaped perimeter of Nikita Khrushchev's head sweeping to a comic climax in the dark hole...
...Harry Truman, the man who gave the order, explained often and emphatically that he did so for the simplest yet most compelling of reasons: to end the war. Such surety seems comforting. Yet one thing last week's observances showed is that such a simple explanation remains unsettling. We continue to poke through the rubble of history, compelled to search for clues about why something so incomprehensible can seem so explainable...
...weapon, had developed a constituency and a momentum of its own. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the charismatic master of Los Alamos, gave short shrift to those scientists working under him who urged that their creation not be used. Congressional committees, the first of them led by a Missouri Senator named Truman, had long been grumbling about the huge secret appropriations poured into the Manhattan Project and warning that the results had better be worth the $2 billion investment, which was serious money in those days. When the scientists succeeded, it became all but impossible to argue that their weapon, one that...
...factor, one still enmeshed in historical controversy. By the end of July, Japan was reeling. It was likely that a Soviet declaration of war would be the coup de grace. Gar Alperovitz, a historical revisionist whose newly updated Atomic Diplomacy is a harsh critique of American policy, argues that Truman was well aware of this. One of his principal goals during the Big Three meeting in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam in July 1945 was to secure Stalin's pledge to enter the war within a few weeks. When the Soviet dictator agreed, Truman jotted in his diary: "Fini Japs...
...until the next day, on a chilly gray morning that happened to be Truman's 61st birthday, did the new President go on the radio and read his formal proclamation: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help...