Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to work on all forms of nuclear weapons. That included hydrogen bombs. And a man ...
Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; ...
For example, George H.W. Bush was acting president for almost eight hours in 1985 while Ronald Reagan had colon surgery. Dick ...
and Truman was largely unknown outside his home state. Would he be up to it? He jumped in with determination and made one major decision after another: Approving the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, ...
The 46th president will likely talk up his achievements on infrastructure, student loan forgiveness, and steering the nation through COVID.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: One of the most controversial decisions in history was President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Elon Musk appears to have some sway over US president-elect Donald Trump, but top Chinese scholars are doubtful about how much influence the tech billionaire will have on the incoming administration’s ...
When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four Puerto Rican nationalists who attacked members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s, he cited “humane ...
Today, the danger of a nuclear conflagration is more real than ever and there are no Russells, Einsteins and Rotblats to warn the world of what can happen to us ...