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If Truman was so unhappy about The Bomb and its destructive capabilities, why did his administration go on to develop the immensely more powerful H-bomb? Why spend half a dozen years focused on building & testing weapons INSTEAD of peaceful applications of atomic energy?
That's not only an interesting question, it's probably the subject of my next book...! :-) Truman didn't see any alternatives. Maybe he was right, maybe he was wrong. But despite building the things, he took concrete steps to try to prevent them from being used.
It’s a book I’m looking forward to reading. The early post-war period of massive stockpiling and testing to the exclusion of more constructing uses of the technology continues to confuse and fascinate me. Ike’s Atoms for Peace in first year of Presidency also interesting
I'm thinking that Truman was also facing an utterly ruthless tyrant in the form of Stalin who had no qualms about killing women & children, so probably felt it necessary to stay ahead of the Soviets with the tech.
For first four yrs of Truman’s atomic arms race, US had a monopoly. IOW, we were racing ourselves. Stalin was a tyrant, but he was also an ally through 1945. Hard to deny importance of Soviet participation in battle to defeat Nazis
I think it's equally hard to deny how he was working with them early on, and tried to use the distraction to regain former Tsarist territories (i.e. Finland). It's also rather difficult to deny how dependent the USSR was on the UK and the US as well.
No one nation shouldered the whole burden alone.
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