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Harvard's Cold Warrior
Bird, Kai | April 11, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the book "James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age," by James G. Hershberg. The book presents biography of James Bryant Conant, Harvard's president from 1933 to 1953 and the man most responsible for ushering America into the atomic era. He vigorously defended the atomic bombing of Hiroshima but supported international control of the bomb after the war. He lobbied for universal military service but fought against the building of the hydrogen bomb and opposed atomic energy plants as not worth the proliferation risk.

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JAMES B. Conant (Book); HERSHBERG, James G.; CONANT, James Bryant; BIOGRAPHY; ATOMIC bomb; BOOKS
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