Fifties (130 page)

19
WE ARE FACED WITH EXACTLY:
Yergin, p. 350.

CHAPTER TWO

21
THE GREAT WHITE JAIL:
Truman,
Harry S Truman,
p. 260.

21
TWO-DOLLAR WORDS:
Truman, p. 26.

21
HAD BREAKFAST IN THE COFFEE SHOP:
Ferrell,
Dear Bess: the Letters from Harry to Bess Truman 1910–1959,
p. 468.

22
HIS UNUSUALLY BAD EYESIGHT:
McCullough,
Truman,
p. 41.

22
THANKS TO THE RIGHT LIFE:
Ferrell, p. 478.

22
THREE THINGS RUIN A MAN:
McCullough, p. 181.

23
BRIGHT GRAYNESS:
McCullough, p. 333.

23
A MAN OF IMMENSE DETERMINATION:
Truman, p. 268.

23
STRAIGHTFORWARD, DECISIVE, SIMPLE, ENTIRELY HONEST:
McCullough, p. 351.

23
HE MUSED ABOUT HOW MANY:
Donovan,
Tumultuous Years,
p. 155.

24
SHORTLY AFTER TRUMAN’S INAUGURATION AS:
Truman, p. 415.

24
IF IT EXPLODES—AS I:
Blumberg and Owens,
Energy and Conflict: The Life of Edward Teller,
p. 149.

24
NOW I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED:
Moss,
Men Who Play God: The Story of the H-Bomb and How the World Came to Live with It,
p. 34.

25
THE ARMY THOUGHT THE SOVIETS:
Blair and Shepley,
The Hydrogen Bomb: The Men, the Menace, the Mechanism,
p. 13.

25
THAT THE RUSSIANS COULD NOT:
Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
p. 760.

25
WHEN HE FIRST MET HEAD:
Davis,
Lawrence and Oppenheimer,
p. 260.

26
ARE YOU SURE?:
Moss, p. 24.

26
HE THEN SPECULATED THAT CAPTURED:
Lilienthal,
The Journals of David Lilienthal,
p. 571.

26
I’M NOT CONVINCED THAT RUSSIA:
Moss, p. 25.

26
WHAT WE’D FEARED EVER SINCE:
Lilienthal, p. 570.

26
THIS IS NOW A DIFFERENT:
Donovan, p. 99.

26
RUSSIA HAS SHOWN HER TEETH:
Donovan, p. 103.

26
STAY STRONG AND HOLD ON:
Davis, p. 294.

26
THE ERA WHEN WE MIGHT:
Pringle and Spigelman,
The Nuclear Barons,
p. 88.

27
INDEED AMERICA’S DEMOBILIZATION:
Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945–1948,
p. 127.

27
AROUND A TABLE WAS A:
Collins,
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea,
p. 39.

28
UNKNOWN TO TRUMAN AT THE:
Lamont,
Day of Trinity,
p. 261.

28
A SCIENTIST CANNOT HOLD BACK:
Lamont, p. 261.

29
IN THE LAST MILLISECOND:
Szasz,
The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945,
p. 89.

29
NOW WE’RE ALL SONS:
Lamont, p. 242.; Szasz, p. 90.

29
OPPENHEIMER HIMSELF WENT BACK:
Oppenheimer,
Letters and Recollections,
p. 297.

29
WHEN JAMES CONANT RETURNED:
Szasz, p. 203.

29
YOU WILL BELIEVE THAT THIS:
Oppenheimer, p. 297.

29
GIVEN THE FACT THAT IN:
Rhodes, p. 563.

29
THE MORE WE WORKED:
Rhodes, pp. 416–17

30
BETTER BE A SLAVE UNDER:
Blumberg and Owens, p. 121.

30
AN IMMENSE GULF BETWEEN THE:
Bundy,
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years,
p. 198.

30
THE BOMB, WHOSE GLARE ILLUMINATED:
Alsop, Joseph and Stewart,
We Accuse,
p. 6.

31
I. I. RABI, THE NOBEL LAUREATE:
Davis, p. 185.

31
THERE, JOHNNY VON NEUMANN:
Alvarez,
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist,
p. 130.

31
A SPIRIT OF ATHENS:
Davis, p. 186.

31
WHEN ANYONE MENTIONS LABORATORY DIRECTORS:
Davis, p. 182.

32
HE WAS SO MUCH SMARTER:
Interview with Victor Weisskopf.

32
YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ENOUGH ABOUT:
Interview with Victor Weisskopf.

32
ASK ME A QUESTION IN LATIN:
Blumberg and Owens, p. 76.

32
I WAS AN UNCTUOUS, REPULSIVELY:
Pringle and Spigelman, p. 114.

32
YEARS LATER, DESPITE HIS IMMENSE:
Oppenheimer, pp. 61 and 300.

32
THERE WAS A TERRIBLE SADNESS:
Interview with Victor Weisskopf.

33
TROUBLE IS THAT OPPIE IS:
Michelmore,
The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story,
p. 20.

33
I GOT OUT OF THERE:
Blair and Shepley, pp. 32–33; and Michelmore, p. 23.

33
THERE’S A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN:
Davis, p. 51.

33
WHY I CHOSE THAT NAME:
Oppenheimer, p. 290.

34
IF THE RADIANCE OF A:
Lamont, p. 297.

34
THE DAY AFTER THE NAGASAKI:
Davis, p. 251.

34
IF YOU ASK:
Rhodes, p. 758.

34
LET THE SECOND TEAM TAKE:
Davis, p. 251.

34
HE REALLY IS A TRAGIC:
Lilienthal, p. 69.

35
MOST IMPORTANT MILITARY RESOURCE:
Rhodes, p. 751.

35
ON WHICH HE DREW LITTLE:
Acheson,
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department,
p. 153.

35
MISTER PRESIDENT, I HAVE BLOOD:
Donovan, p. 155.

36
THE GREATEST EVENT IN THE:
Pringle and Spigelman, p. 93.

36
TOTAL POWER IN THE HANDS:
Pringle and Spigelman, p. 93.

36
WOULD PUSH THE ADMINISTRATION:
Donovan, vol. 2, p. 152.

36
WHAT SHALL WE DO:
Rhodes, p. 767.

36
I’M NOT WORRYING ABOUT THE:
Rhodes, p. 768.

37
FAILING TO GET OPPENHEIMER:
Bernstein,
Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy,
p. 94.

37
EDWARD, I’VE BEEN THINKING IT:
Moss, p. 53.

37
I HAVE EXPLAINED THIS TO:
Bernstein, p. 94.

38
SO MUCH SO THAT LESLIE:
Goodchild,
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds,
p. 93.

38
TRUMAN TOLD LILIENTHAL THAT STRAUSS:
Lilienthal, p. 89.

38
BUT IN
1917,
WHEN HE:
Strauss,
Men and Decisions,
p. 6.

38
WHEN DO YOU WANT TO:
Strauss, p. 8.

39
HE HAS MORE ELBOWS THAN:
Norton-Taylor, “The Controversial Mr. Strauss,”
Fortune,
January 1955.

39
ALL PLIABILITY:
Alsop and Alsop, p. 19.

39
VERY SMART AND VERY VAIN:
Donovan, p. 150.

39
FAR LESS IMPORTANT THAN ELECTRONIC:
Stern,
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial,
p. 130; and Davis, pp. 289–90.

39
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT:
Blumberg and Owens, p. 202.

40
ON THE OTHER HAND:
Donovan, p. 152.

41
ELFRIEDE SEGRE WOULD WATCH HIM:
Lamont, p. 78.

41
STANISLAW ULAM, THE BRILLIANT MATHEMATICIAN:
Williams,
Klaus Fuchs: Atom Spy,
pp. 40 and 76.

42
WHAT CONCERNS ME IS REALLY NOT:
Oppenheimer, pp. 89–90.

43
OVER MY DEAD BODY:
Stern, p. 138.

43
THERE ARE GRADES OF MORALITY:
Lilienthal, p. 581.

43
MAKES ME FEEL I WAS:
Lilienthal, p. 581.

43
ONLY PSYCHOLOGICAL:
Davis, p. 312.

43
AS LONG AS YOU PEOPLE:
York,
The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb,
p. 65.

44
ENOUGH EVIL HAD BEEN BROUGHT:
Bundy, p. 216.

44
I DON’T BLITZ EASILY:
Lilienthal, p. 594.

44
WE KEEP SAYING:
Lilienthal, p. 577.

45
I DON’T THINK SO:
Williams, p. 2.

45
ON JANUARY
27, 1950,
AN:
Williams, p. 116.

46
HE DID NOT, THE PRESIDENT:
Williams, p. 116.

46
CAN THE RUSSIANS DO IT:
Lilienthal, Vol. 2, pp. 632–33.

46
THE ROOF FELL IN TODAY:
Lilienthal, p. 634.

46
SENATOR BRIEN MCMAHON, LEWIS STRAUSS:
Blumberg and Owens, p. 213.

46
IT WAS ALWAYS MY INTENTION:
Williams, p. 134.

47
YES SIR, I’LL TELL THEM:
Sakharov,
Memoirs,
p. 160.

47
THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT:
Sakharov, p. 99.

CHAPTER THREE

50
IN THE MIDDLE OF A SPEECH:
Bayley,
Joe McCarthy and the Press,
pp. 17–18.

51
“HOWARD SHIPLEY,” MCCARTHY WROTE:
Bayley, p. 29; author interview with Frank McCullough.

53
WHEN SOME CRITICISM OF MCCARTHY’S ATTACKS:
Bayley, p. 14.

54
IN ONE OF HIS FIRST SPEECHES:
Patterson,
Mr. Republican,
p. 444.

54
HE WAS, SAID HIS OLD FRIEND:
Oshinsky,
A Conspiracy So Immense,
p. 503.

54
THEN HE ROARED WITH LAUGHTER:
Bayley, p. 73.

54
“HE WAS,” SAID SENATOR PAUL DOUGLAS:
Oshinsky, p. 15.

55
HE GOES FORTH TO BATTLE:
Oshinsky, p. 397

55
“I WASN’T OFF PAGE ONE:
Oshinsky, p. 118

55
SO THE REPORTERS SAT THERE:
Bayley, p. 130.

55
“JOE COULDN’T FIND A COMMUNIST:
Bayley, p. 68

56
HE NEVER HAS ANY PLANS.”:
Bayley, p. 151.

56
TYDINGS, USING A SUBCOMMITTEE:
Caute,
The Great Fear,
p. 36.

56
“HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET?”:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 83.

57
“IF THE NEW DEAL IS STILL IN CONTROL:
Oshinsky, p. 50.

57
WHERRY OF NEBRASKA, FAMOUS FOR:
Oshinsky, p. 36.

57
AND WHELKER OF IDAHO, WHO FANCIED:
Oshinsky, p. 133.

57
HE REFERRED TO PEOPLE IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT:
Patterson, p. 443.

58
IT PORTRAYED TAFT AS THE SPOILED CHILD:
Patterson, pp. 458–59.

58
HE SHOULD “KEEP TALKING AND IF ONE CASE:
Patterson, p. 455.

59
BUT, AS ROVERE LATER WROTE:
Rovere, “What Course for the Powerful Mr. Taft?”, p. 9.

59
WHEN SPILLANE’S FIRST BOOK,
I, THE JURY:
Life,
June 23, 1952.

59
HE WAS THE AVENGER:
Kenneth Davis,
Two Bit Culture,
p. 181.

60
TERRY SOUTHERN NOTED:
Esquire,
July 1963.

60
VICTOR WEYBRIGHT, THE CHIEF EDITOR:
Fortune,
September 1963.

61
THE EVIL OF THE COMMUNISTS:
Davis, p. 182.

61
JAMES SANDOE OF THE
HERALD TRIBUNE:
Life,
June 23, 1952.

61
“NO, ANYBODY CAN BE A WINNER:
Esquire,
July 1963.

CHAPTER FOUR

62
“IF THE BEST MINDS HAD SET OUT:
Goulden,
Korea: The Untold Story of the War,
p. 3.

62
“A SOUR LITTLE WAR,”:
Thomas and Isaacson,
The Wise Men,
p. 507.

63
THEY WERE, HE SAID, “THE SAME BREED:
Blair,
The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953,
p. 38.

64
“I AM NOT SUFFICIENTLY FAMILIAR:
Blair, p. 39.

64
“REGARDING AMERICAN POLICY,” HE ADDED:
Hastings,
The Korean War,
p. 39.

64
“ITS POLITICAL LIFE IN THE COMING PERIOD”:
Blair, p. 41.

65
DEIGNING TO COME TO SEOUL:
Blair, p. 44.

66.
“DEAN REALLY BLEW IT:
Author interview with Averell Harriman.

66
“[THE CHINESE PEOPLE] HAD NOT OVERTHROWN:
Acheson,
Present at the Creation,
pp. 355–56.

67
TO OMAR BRADLEY, IT COULD:
Bradley,
A General’s Life,
p. 474.

67
THE TRUMAN DEFENSE BUDGET, CABELL PHILLIPS:
Manchester,
American Caesar,
p. 550.