Tony Meredith
I've just ordered a hardback book. Alex Wellerstein's "The Most Awful Responsibility." It's about Truman and the Bomb.
A time when humans were still fallible in leadership, but tried to learn.
h/t Garrett Graff on Bsky
(Oh. Yes. I still use Kindle to see a free sample before buying elsewhere.)
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Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social)

What does Trump mean with his 8 pm ultimatum tomorrow against Iran? That we can’t rule out that Trump is set to nuke Iran is an astounding commentary on how unhinged and dangerous his presidency has become and how far off the rails the war with Iran has gone. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-about-to-nuke-iran

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Show threadTony MeredithApr 10
Seriously. This book is worth a read. Ask your library.
It's new research into the fallibility of mainly decent people (entirely American men) trying to find a path into this world with nuclear bombs.
#AlexWellerstein #Truman
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Alex-Wellerstein/The-Most-Awful-Responsibility--Truman-and-the-Secret-Struggle-for-Control-of-the-Atomic-Age/31165712
Show threadTony MeredithApr 24
Yes. I do like reading a decent historian of the last century.
#NuclearWeapons #NuclearWar #AlexWellerstein
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Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein.bsky.social)

OK, it turns out that I actually do have the document this is based on — a Top Secret (not anymore) hearing before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy from June 1956. It shows how the army, at least, reasoned its way into these numbers...

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Show threadTony MeredithApr 10
Also. Those photographs.
#LaurenBacall
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2014/08/14/truman-bacall-and-that-photograph/
Truman, Bacall, and That Photograph

By Jim Worsham Harry S. Truman had been Vice President of the United States for only a few weeks when he showed up on February 10, 1945, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He had agreed …

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