One More on the Bomb

There is a new book by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin on Oppenheimer. If the excerpt of the book in this month's Smithsonian Magazine (here is the abstract) is any indication, they ignored all of the great research done by Richard Frank in the last decade.

Sigh.

Well, Frank did call it:

The displacement of the so-called traditionalist view within important segments of American opinion took several decades to accomplish. It will take a similar span of time to displace the critical orthodoxy that arose in the 1960s and prevailed roughly through the 1980s, and replace it with a richer appreciation for the realities of 1945

He's right, but it is still frustrating.