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by Oliver Stone


  sterilizations, forced, 80–81

  Stern Gang, 219

  Stettinus, Edward, 102, 120, 122

  Stevenson, Adlai, 247, 281, 282, 284, 288, 321

  Stiglitz, Joseph, 530, 533, 558, 590, 614

  Stimson, Henry, xxxi, 96, 103, 105, 111, 113, 119, 122, 143–46, 152, 158–160–64, 165, 175, 178, 184

  Stockhold International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 289

  stock market:

  1920s boom of, 48

  1929 crash of, 48

  1987 collapse of, 462

  Stone, I. F., 232, 278

  Stone, Oliver, 336

  Strategic Air Command (SAC), 227, 229, 241, 254, 286, 303, 383, 418

  during Cuban Missile Crisis, 309, 311

  Emergency War Plan of, 257

  Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, U.S., 176

  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), 379–80

  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), 404–5, 404, 407, 413–14, 415–16

  Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 445, 482, 483

  Strategic Command, U.S., 534–35

  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI; Star Wars), 396, 442–43, 447–49, 448, 451–55, 462, 576

  Strategic Rocket Forces, Soviet, 443

  strategic weapons, 449, 451

  offensive, 463

  Strauss, Lewis, 270–71, 283

  strikes, xviii–xix, 33–34, 35, 52

  national textile, 57, 58

  railroad, xix, xxi

  in Venezuela, 39

  Student Army Training Corps (SATC), 12

  students, in protest movements, 335, 336, 338, 356, 357, 364, 369–71

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 335

  submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), 379

  submarines:

  nuclear, 286–87, 302, 416, 540, 541

  Soviet, 309

  Sudan, 217, 523, 536

  as future target, 523, 526

  Suez Canal, 105, 189, 217, 259, 282, 408

  Suez Crisis, 282, 414

  Suharto, 350, 351, 352–53, 395–96

  Sukarno, 347–52, 351

  Sullivan and Cromwell, 82, 122, 254, 263

  Sultan, Bandar bin, Saudi Crown Prince, 475, 488

  Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 262, 265

  Sulzberger, C. L., 125–26

  Summers, Lawrence, 484–85, 552, 554–55

  Summit of the Americas, 603–4

  Sunnis, 528, 532–33, 534, 598

  Sun Oil Company, 63

  Supreme Court, U.S., 80, 347, 511, 565

  Citizens United in, 558

  FDR’s court-packing plan for, 62

  Pentagon Papers ruling of, 385

  2000 election decision in, 494

  Supreme Soviet’s Committee on Defense and Security Issues of, 420

  Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council (UHVR), 214

  surveillance, xii, 549, 551, 565

  drone, 572, 576

  Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) program, 508

  Suskind, Ron, 495–96, 513, 532, 554

  Suzuki, Kantaro, 147, 173

  Sweden, 287, 547

  Switzerland, 82, 499–500, 549

  Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 612

  Sykes-Picot Agreement, 26

  Syria, 219, 477, 507, 518, 536, 600, 601–2, 613

  as future target, 522, 523, 526

  systems analysis, 383

  Szilard, Leo, 132–33, 135–36, 136, 160–61, 178, 180, 230, 272, 300

  tactical nuclear weapons, 466, 482

  Taft, William Howard, 1, 39

  Taguba, Antonio, 510–11

  Taiwan, 223, 238, 251, 328, 430, 456, 606, 609

  Taliban, 486–90, 501, 503, 506–7, 534, 573, 577, 578

  in Afghanistan, 486–90, 501, 503, 506–7, 534, 535, 571, 580, 581, 583–84, 588–89, 591, 594, 597

  9/11 and, 501

  Pakistan and, 535, 571

  women and, 580

  Tanforan, Calif., 153

  Tanzania, 490

  Taraki, Nur Muhammad, 412–13

  Tarawa, 145

  TASS, 445

  taxes, 557

  G. W. Bush’s cuts for the wealthy, 506, 545, 546, 559

  income, 68, 254

  in Iraq, 530–31

  middle-class, 484

  Reagan’s contradictory statements about, 445

  Reagan’s cuts for the wealthy, 438, 462

  war and, 505

  on wealthy, 61

  on working class, 63

  Taylor, Glen, 192, 221

  Taylor, Maxwell, 295, 305, 315, 367

  Taylor, Telford, 173, 174

  Tea Party, xiv

  Tehran, 110, 116, 455

  Teicher, Howard, 439

  telecommunications, 551

  Teller, Edward, 134–35, 229, 275, 284, 364

  Tenet, George, 497–98, 502, 511, 514, 519, 528, 542

  Tennessee:

  bank holiday in, 47

  Crusader White Shirts in, 53

  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 196

  terrorism, terrorists, 506, 528, 534, 535

  domestic, 488

  G. W. Bush’s war on, 504–5

  national brainwashing on, 544

  potential targets for, 505

  state, 472

  Tet Offensive, 316, 339, 341

  Texaco Oil Company, 84

  Texas, University of, 553

  Thach, Nguyen Co, 365–66

  Thailand, 100, 266, 304, 328, 338, 389, 576

  Thatcher, Margaret, 434

  Thieu, Nguyen Van, 332, 333, 358–59, 387, 393–94

  third world, 257–58, 464

  halt in economic growth of, 425–26

  Soviet withdrawal from, 467–68

  Thomas, Helen, 531–32

  Three Russian Girls, 106

  Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 41

  Thurmond, Strom, 221

  Tibbets, Paul, 157, 166–67, 167

  Time, 50, 52, 55, 101, 122, 140, 223, 240, 242, 258, 300, 341, 373–74, 387, 524, 613

  Tito, Josip Broz, 208–9, 257

  Toge, Sankichi, 169–70

  Tojo, Hideki, 138

  Tokyo, 147, 161, 356, 488

  bombing of, 157–59, 158, 303

  Tokyo war criminal trials, 215

  Toledo, Ohio, general strike in, 57, 58

  Tora Bora, 507

  torture, 507–11, 511, 514, 549, 600

  in Argentina and Chile, 424

  in CIA “black site” facilities, 504, 507–10

  G. W. Bush administration and, 499–500, 561, 568

  in Pakistan, 429

  psychological, 507–8

  Toyama, 158

  Toyoda, Soemu, 147, 175

  trade unions, 4, 58–59, 138

  Trading with the Enemy Act, 81

  Trans-Pacific Partnership, 610–11

  Transparency International, 533, 583

  Treasury Department, U.S., 70–71, 530, 551–53

  Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 28

  Treaty of London, 31–32

  Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security (AMPO), 380–81

  Treblinka, 127

  Trident submarines, 416

  Trilateral Commission, 401–3, 464, 490, 491

  Triple Entente, see Allies

  Trotsky, Leon, 9, 26, 28, 34

  Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP), 553

  Truman, Bess, 126, 151, 162

  Truman, Harry, 53, 96, 121, 140, 158, 161, 190, 191, 194, 199, 211, 213, 223, 225, 237, 247, 254, 259, 262, 392, 635n, 640n

  administration of, 224, 244

  aggressive attitude of, 123–25, 141, 146–47, 163, 196, 200, 246, 248

  background of, 140–42

  Britain favored by, 184, 187

  Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech and, 191–94, 191

  H. Wallace’s firing by, 202–5

  as H. Wallace’s replacement, 140, 142–43

  inter
ventionist foreign policy of, 207–9, 207

  on Israel-Palestine, 218

  Korean War and, 236–41, 243–44, 246

  loyalty checks required by, 212

  loyalty-security program of, 231

  MacArthur fired by, 242–44, 243

  in 1948 elections, 220–22

  nuclear warfare and, 143–44, 158, 160–66, 171–72, 175–80, 185, 196–97, 228, 230–31, 256

  at Potsdam, 161–66, 165, 171

  racism and anti-Semitism of, 141, 151, 217, 218

  response to Berlin blockade by, 220

  rightward shift of, 186, 194

  succession to presidency of, 117–19, 119, 143

  wartime policy of, 120–29, 144–48

  Truman, John “Peanuts,” 140, 163

  Truman Doctrine, 207, 207

  Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 48, 63, 69

  Tunisia, 265, 305, 563, 613

  Turkey, 4, 67–68, 189, 190, 206, 207, 208, 216, 474–75, 555, 601, 602

  Iraq war opposed in, 524

  U.S. IRBMs in, 302, 306–7, 308, 310

  Turkish Straits, 189

  Turkmenistan, 488, 591

  Turley, Jonathan, 561–62, 565

  Turner, Stansfield, 397, 403, 405

  U-2 reconnaissance planes, 276, 279, 306, 307, 309–11

  Ubico, Jorge, 260–61

  U-boats, German, 5–6, 68

  Ukraine, 28, 97, 214, 450, 537–38

  Ukrainian National Organization, 214

  UN Conference on Disarmament, 542

  UN Convention Against Torture, 500, 508

  unemployment, xxii, 45, 57, 61, 406, 614

  African-American, 59

  European, 188

  unilateralism, 494, 496, 497, 549

  United Arab Emirates, 506, 583, 586

  United Fruit Company, xxviii, xxix, xxx, 82, 254, 262–65, 279, 291

  United Nations, 114, 120, 121–22, 124, 201, 234, 241, 252, 265, 320, 321, 329, 389, 394, 404, 408, 420, 424, 434, 464, 477, 480–81, 489, 538, 569, 575, 583, 589

  Assistance Mission of, in Afghanistan, 594

  China and, 236, 313

  Disarmament Commission of, 330

  drug control agency of, 594

  Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech in, 256

  Electoral Complaints Commission of, 585

  Gender-Related Development Index of, 580

  General Assembly of, 218, 280, 376, 436

  Gorbachev’s address to, 463–64, 465, 466, 467

  Iraq’s use of chemical weapons brought before, 440

  Korean War and, 236–37, 250–51

  nuclear regulation plan in, 196–98

  Palestine and, 218, 601

  Powell’s UN Iraq War speech in, 519–20

  Resolution 1441 of, 517

  Resolution of, on the Prevention of an Outer Space Arms Race, 542

  sanctions on Iraq by, 475

  Security Council of, 236–37, 240, 346, 472, 476, 478, 491, 516, 517, 520–21, 532, 601

  weapons inspectors of, 491, 515–17, 520, 532

  United Nations Charter, 346, 384

  United Railways of Central America, 254

  United States:

  aerial warfare by, 24, 157–59

  Allied sympathies of, 5

  arms manufacturers in, 439

  ascendance in wake of World War I, 38

  business interests of, 254, 263, 352–53, 356, 372, 376–77

  casualties of, 87, 106, 138, 145, 244, 245

  chemical warfare research in, 20–26

  Cold War and, 180, 204–26

  declining prestige of, 241–42, 256–58, 271, 289, 293, 304, 319, 349, 403, 510, 524, 544–45, 549, 600, 603–4

  as defender of status quo, xxvii

  economic collapse in, 462, 549, 605, 613, 615

  economic hegemony of, 112–13, 114–15

  economy of, 54, 61, 62, 123, 182, 418, 610

  economy sanctions against Japan by, 90

  eugenics in, 80–81

  expansionist impulse in, xv–xvi

  financial crisis of 1998 in, 549, 552, 554

  future role of, 526

  as global hegemon, xi, 355, 482, 490, 566, 604

  immigration legislation in, 88, 151, 156, 217

  imperialism of, xii–xxxiii, xxiii, 38–41, 101, 172, 222, 240, 275, 295, 377, 434, 500, 550

  income inequality in, 545–47, 549, 554–56

  industrial production in, 4, 182

  isolationism in, 36, 38, 41, 83, 94

  Korean War and remilitarization of, 246–47

  lend-lease program and, 189–90

  military interventions by, xxx, 29–30, 209

  military strength of, 115

  neutrality in World War I of, 5–7

  as oil supplier, 4, 38–39, 83, 100, 189

  peacetime European military alliance of, 220, 222

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 82, 98–100, 100, 101, 106, 131, 150–52

  possible Soviet nuclear war with, 273, 298, 415

  rightward drift in, 399

  sexual attitudes in, 16–18

  social justice index of, 555–56

  space program of, 277

  Spanish-American war volunteers from, 84

  trade deficit of, 392

  world economy dominated by, 38

  in World War II, 98–129

  United States Information Agency, 272

  United States Rubber Company, 350

  Unocal, 488–90

  uranium, 133, 134, 143, 161, 203, 410, 478, 519, 535, 593

  Urey, Harold, 160, 223

  Uruguay, 378, 604

  USAID, 345, 484, 487

  U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, 214

  U.S. Conference of Mayors, 591–92

  U.S. Information Agency, 285, 350

  Utrik, 270–71

  Uzbekistan, 544

  Vance, Cyrus, 403, 404, 406, 407, 414–15, 418–19, 419

  Vandenberg, Arthur, 65, 69–70, 75, 77, 94, 206

  Vandenberg, Hoyt, 241–42

  Vandenburg Air Force Base, 308–9

  Vanderlip, Frank A., 54, 73–74

  Van Zandt, James, 64

  venereal disease, 16–17, 17

  Venezuela, 38–39, 40, 391, 457, 603, 604

  Vera Cruz, 2, 3

  Vienna, 23, 80

  J. F. Kennedy–Khrushchev summit in, 295–97, 297

  Viet Cong, 329, 330, 367, 369

  Viet Minh, 267–68

  Vietnam, North, 250, 315, 327, 328, 329, 334, 335, 339, 340, 358, 360, 362, 366, 367, 370, 382, 384, 386–87, 390, 392–94, 404

  Vietnam, South, 268–69, 294, 305, 306, 327, 328, 330, 333, 338, 358, 360, 361, 367, 370, 386–87, 392–94, 404

  Vietnam, Vietnam War, 32, 33, 208, 238, 240, 266–70, 290, 296, 304–5, 348, 374, 380, 384–86, 392, 402, 434, 436, 456, 481, 523, 570, 576, 577–78, 606, 612

  antiwar movement and, 335, 336, 338, 340–41, 341, 357, 364, 369–70, 371, 384–85

  Cambodia invaded by, 389, 467

  Carter on, 401, 403–4, 416

  chemical warfare in, 306, 330–32, 331, 440

  combat avoided by later war enthusiasts, 523–24

  death toll in, 387

  defense cooperation with U.S. by, 607

  end of war in, 387, 392–94, 395

  J. F. Kennedy’s plan to pull out of, 314–16, 323, 326–27

  Johnson and, 326–35, 338–41, 343, 346, 353–54, 356, 358

  My Lai massacre in, 367–70, 369

  Nixon and, 358, 360–66, 368, 370, 379, 382, 384–89, 394, 404

  Paris peace talks and, 359, 387, 394

  Rolling Thunder in, 329

  U.S. withdrawal from, 382, 387, 392

  Vietnam syndrome, 434, 480, 481

  Vietnam Veterans of America, 395

  Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, 395

  Villaraigosa, Antonio, 591–92

  Virginia, forced sterilizations in, 80–81

  Volcker, Paul, 403, 553�
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  von Braun, Wernher, 215, 277

  Voting Rights Act, 383

  wage and price controls, 383, 401

  Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee), xiii

  Walker, William H., 22–23

  Wallace, George, 356

  Wallace, Henry A., xi, 63, 90–93, 101, 112, 117, 119, 121, 128, 134, 180, 193, 202, 217, 318, 377, 447, 550

  as anticolonialist, 138, 180, 194, 204

  antinuclear position of, 184–88, 194, 196, 199–204

  Century of the Common Man and, xi, 101, 181

  Korean war and retirement of, 251–52

  Madison Square Garden speech of, 200–202, 204

  removed from 1944 ticket of, 138–40, 142–43

 

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