3.  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

6.  The Bombing of Hiroshima & NagasakiHiroshima & Nagasaki

8.  World War II in the Pacific  The US, Russia & Japan  The Potsdam Conference, July, 1945  Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945  Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945

9.  The Atomic Bomb & History  “Half a million lives saved” Harry Truman  “a million lives saved” Henry Stimson  Atomic Diplomacy  The Doomsday Clock

10.  The Cold War & Control of Atomic Energy  The Bikini Atoll Bomb Test The Bikini Atoll Bomb Test  The Baruch Plan

11. 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

12. One World or None “If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand” “The Peril of Universal Death” World Government What to do? What happened?

13. The Truman Doctrine “containment” Cold war at home NSC-68 1. Against negotiations with Russia 2. Develop H-bomb 3. Rapid build-up of armed forces 4. Large tax increases 5. Mobilization of American society to create “consensus” emphasizing “sacrifice” & “unity” 6. A strong alliance system 7. A campaign to undermine Russia from within

14. NSC-57 The “Super”—Mike test, 1952Mike test, 1952 Soviet H-bomb, 1953 US Bravo test, 1954 Soviet ICBM, Aug. 1957 Sputnik, Oct. 1957 US atomic arsenal: 1945: 2 1947: c. 6 1950: 300 1951: 640 1952: 1,005 1953: 1,436 1954: 2,063 1955: 3, 057 Global atomic arsenals

15.  The advent of “deterrence” (Brodie)  From “The New Look” to “Flexible Response”  The Bay of Pigs, 1962  The Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1963