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Article: 'ROBERT OPPENHEIMER: THE ATOMIC BOMB & THE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 7, 2008 ;     474 words ... ... Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb and the Cold War" presented by Dr ... the creation of the atomic bomb in 1945. The subsequent ... role in inventing the atomic bomb and his work afterward ... nuclear weapons and the Cold War. Hunner is an associate ...

Article: The atomic bomb, the cold war, and ...
Monthly Review;  December 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... marshals along with other sources to present an account of the perceived interests and motives that induced Truman to use the atomic bomb twice against the Japanese in August, 1945. Atomic Diplomacy reconstructs the development of U.S. policy during the six ...

Article: The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold ...
American Diplomacy;  January 6, 2009 ;     700+ words ...The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War Book reviewed: Campbell ... Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War, Yale University ... historical period in The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. The authors' ...

Cold War Cleanup
AP Images;  June 1, 2008 ;     236 words ... ... 25 Building itself is the giant U-shaped structure in the middle. The plant supplied uranium for the first atomic bomb, the Cold War arsenal and finally commercial power reactors. (AP Photo/Department of Energy)

Article: Arms race that slowed with end of Cold War
The Scotsman;  May 14, 2002 ;     524 words ... ... United States drops atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. 1949 - The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb. 1950s - The Cold War accelerates. 1957 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first earth- orbiting satellite. 1961 - The ...

Article: The centrality of the bomb. (Cold War)
Foreign Policy;  March 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... specific role the atomic bomb played in fueling the Cold War. In fact ... because the atomic bomb appeared precisely ... explanation of the Cold War offer a good ... there been no atomic bomb. What needs ... called "the Cold War." Historians ...

Article: The Atom Bomb and the Origins of the Cold ...
Habitat Australia;  October 1, 2008 ;     567 words ... ... Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War, the real story of the atom ... development and the role of the atomic bomb. Most compelling is their ... rather than being a tool of the Cold War, the development of the atomic bomb actually forced Russia and ...