The Korean War of Prisoners
The Korean War began as a conflict over territory. It would become a fight for prisoners’ asylum.
Harry S. Truman
Mystery Man of the White House
David K. Niles worked in the shadows of US presidents. He also helped save their administrations.
Attlee and Truman
Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.
Who Started the Korean War?
To Cold War hawks the ambitions of Stalin lay behind Kim Il Sung. Only with the opening of archives some 50 years later did Soviet responsibility for the Korean War become known.
The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
On January 31st, 1950, Truman announced that he had directed the Atomic Agency Commission 'to continue with its work on all forms of atomic energy weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb'.
Truman and the Atom Bomb
Alonzo Hamby considers Harry Truman's First World War experiences and explores the dilemmas that influenced his decision to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.