Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

General Curtis LeMay

The Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

World War II in the Pacific

The US, Russia & Japan The Potsdam

Conference, July, 1945 Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945 Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945

The Atomic Bomb & History

“Half a million lives saved”• Harry Truman

“a million lives saved”• Henry Stimson

Atomic Diplomacy

The Doomsday Clock

The Cold War & Control of Atomic Energy

The Bikini Atoll Bomb Test

The Baruch Plan

Having invented a new Holocaust,And been the first with it to win a

war,How they make haste to cry with

fingers crossed,King’s X—no fairs to use it any

more!

--Robert Frost

One World or None“If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand”

“The Peril of Universal Death”

World Government

What to do? What happened?

The Truman Doctrine

“containment”

Cold war at home

NSC-681.Against negotiations with Russia2.Develop H-bomb3.Rapid build-up of armed forces4.Large tax increases5.Mobilization of American society to create “consensus” emphasizing “sacrifice” & “unity”6.A strong alliance system7.A campaign to undermine Russia from within

•NSC-57

•The “Super”—Mike test, 1952

•Soviet H-bomb, 1953

•US Bravo test, 1954

•Soviet ICBM, Aug. 1957

•Sputnik, Oct. 1957

US atomic arsenal:1945: 21947: c. 61950: 3001951: 6401952: 1,0051953: 1,4361954: 2,0631955: 3, 057Global atomic arsenals

The advent of “deterrence” (Brodie)

From “The New Look”to

“Flexible Response”

The Bay of Pigs, 1962

The Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1963