COLD WAR

Possible topics for the cold war that hasn’t been done to death? I received some documents the other day through the Gilder Lehrman web site. The documents were specifically about the scientists who ‘created’ the science of atomic weaponry. The scientist involved in the Manhattan Project were opposed to the choices being made by the United States government about the management and the use of atomic weapons after World War II. I think this might be interesting to pursue. The documents also mentioned the May-Johnson bill that was proposed to the House of Representatives giving control of atomic weapons completely over to the military. I would like to explore this topic more thoroughly. I know that Robert Oppenheimer ran into some difficulties in the 1950s because of his stance over atomic weapons.