The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic AgeA nuclear historian gives a new, surprising account of one of the most controversial actions in historyhow the United States deployed the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War IIand the fallout that continues to haunt us. In the eight decades since the United States deployed the most destructive weapon ever used, conventional wisdom has held that American leaders were faced with a difficult choice: Invade Japan, which would have cost