[HardStarboard]

I'm glad to see that someone elst thought "Dark Sun", by Richard Rhodes, was a tour-de-force. The story of the invention of the hydrogen bomb was interesting, but far more engrossing was the story of Soviet espionage targeted against the US nuclear efforts. Basically, the U.S. was almost clueless as to the extent of the Soviet effort.

I have another reason for reading the book - my last name is Rhodes - no relation. And I can assure you that my legs aren't anything close to Ann Coulter's either!

[ggekko]

"I'm glad to see that someone else thought "Dark Sun", by Richard Rhodes, was a tour-de-force."

In a related vein I strongly recommend "The New Dealer's War" by Thomas Fleming. This book lays out a withering critique of FDR's domestic and foreign policy which shows in scrupulously documented detail how the egalitarian fanaticism of FDR and his cadre impelled FDR's administration to callously and repeatedly deceive the American people. This book also demonstrates that FDR's "unconditional surrender" policy, hailed by liberal court historians, was a piece errant foolishness that extended the war by as much as 2 1/2 years and cost millions of lives.

Maybe Ann Coulter's celebiry can help to publicize other scholars who have previously exploded the Liberal FDR myth.

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I thought Oppenheimer turned out to be a Communist. He ran the Mannhattan project. When Ike found out that McCarthy knew about the connection and the Army's role in it, he stepped in to block the investigations and left McCarthy hanging in the wind.