Weekly Wasteland Wrap-up #30

The book is done, and some travel photos...

I am emerging from my deadline cave after several weeks, because (triumphant music playing) the new. book. is. done! Finally. It’s amazing how the last push is always the hardest. Here is the cover, which I am reasonably happy with:

It should be out later this year from HarperCollins. I’ll post more about it when it is more imminent, but the basic gist is that it is a “Truman and the Bomb” book that not only gives a very different interpretation on the “decision to use the atomic bomb” argument that people are familiar with, but also runs the story past World War II and through the rest of Truman’s presidency, trying to make a coherent whole out of the early Cold War, and the pressures to use and not use nuclear weapons after World War II.

Obligatory Lyndon photo… he is doing well!

It’s been a bear to finish, but re-reading the whole thing all over again in the last few weeks has been really productive. It’s kind of amazing to see a coherent whole emerge from all of the different parts that make it up.

Anyway, it’s been great to finally get it off my plate, and I can get to all of the little things that have had to have been neglected in the meantime, like Doomsday Machines!