Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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November and December 1949 and January 1950: The fight raged on while a special Truman committee-Johnson, Lilienthal and Secretary of State Acheson-failed...
November 1949: President Truman asked AEC members for written opinions on whether or not to go ahead with an all-out effort to build a superbomb. He found two for, two against and one astraddle...
...days later, Truman's committee met. Tensely, they discussed the chance that the Russians, briefed by Fuchs, might have a start in thermonuclear development. Acheson and Johnson voted to recommend full speed ahead. Lilienthal voted against. That afternoon President Truman announced his decision to go ahead with the H-bomb...
...Father of the Bomb. In the months after the President's order, there is evidence of further delay. After Truman's order, Oppenheimer never publicly opposed the H-bomb. But other scientists did. Twelve top physicists signed a statement that said: "We believe that no nation has the right to use such a bomb, no matter how righteous its cause." It is a fact that Teller had great difficulty recruiting scientists in the year after the President's order...
...election of Michigan's Truman Newberry in 1918, for example, lit a bonfire that was to burn in the Senate for four years, and finally became a major factor in the Democrats' success in the 1922 Congressional elections. Newberry, it seems, was guilty of passing out cigars wrapped in tinfoil and $10 bills. No-one would have been outraged if he had distributed them democratically, but unfortunately the Senator gave the tinfoiled cigars to known Democrats, while the $10 variety went to Republican and undecided voters. The Senate, furthermore, chose not to accept Newberry's plea that he was educating...