Word: trumanism
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...dozen characters are introduced -- all of them connected, each dwelling in a private world -- from the widowed owner of the town sawmill (Joan Chen) to the dead girl's hopped-up boyfriend (Dana Ashbrook) to the serene sheriff (Michael Ontkean), whose name, for no particular reason, is Harry S. Truman...
Fuchs' confession and subsequent trial marked a turning point in the history of the cold war. Evidence supplied in the confession led to the arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for what J. Edgar Hoover termed "the crime of the century" and prompted President Harry Truman to launch an all-out program to develop the so-called Super Bomb. Two and a half years later, thanks to the determined efforts of Edward Teller and colleagues at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the U.S. detonated the first thermonuclear device, beating the Soviets to the H-bomb by more than three years...
Fuchs' betrayal of the H-bomb secrets passed into the folklore of the nuclear age. The folklore, however, is false. Fuchs' H-bomb plans were totally misleading, and Truman's rationale for rushing to build the bomb before the Soviets did was on shaky ground. That is the conclusion of an article in the January-February issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, one of a series of scholarly works that are rewriting a period of U.S. history still shrouded in mystery and official secrecy. According to Daniel Hirsch and William Mathews, what Fuchs gave the Soviets...
...account is a top-secret history of the H-bomb written by Hans Bethe in 1952 and only recently declassified. According to Bethe, who headed the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos during World War II, Teller's design began to fall apart shortly after Truman launched his H-bomb program. Teller's idea had been to use the heat of a conventional A-bomb to ignite a separate H-bomb. But Ulam, a brilliant mathematician, made a series of calculations that showed that the amount of tritium fuel required for Teller's bomb was prohibitive and that even when...
...over Washington, savvy men like Bourgeois are changing old rituals and recasting attitudes for the future rushing in on them. It is a future, says Foreign Affairs editor William Hyland, that will present a more unusual challenge to the President than any "since Harry Truman...