The most powerful figure in wartime America vs an unknown dying doctor

It wasn't a fair fight : the unknown dying doctor won.

It was a classic Hollywood-type story of powerless, selfless , agape-good triumphing over all-powerful evil of the most banal kind.

Yellowcake (and Yellow Magic) Diplomacy : Plan B of a Plan B

It never was supposed to end up like the way it all did in 1945.

The original Plan A for America, from 1938 to late-1942, was to rely on the Norden Bombsight and the Sulfa Drugs to see America safely through any dangerous faint echoes from a possible European war.

Both inventions failed to work out anywhere as well in the field as they had been touted they would work by their starry-eyed promoters.

So, from late-1942 to mid-1943, there was an improvised Plan B.

Janus Manhattan 1945 , part 2 : FDR's WPB restores the human fabric ...

If is not just ordinary Americans who find America's political system 'inside the Beltway' to be overly complex and confusing.

Outsiders - some as presidents with hands on nuclear red buttons and some as terrorists with hands on cellphone detonator buttons - find the daily mass/mess of signals coming out of the Beltway totally confusing.

Perhaps never more so than during FDR's 12 year reign when he closely mimicked Adolf Hitler's policy of setting up competing powerful bureaucracies and letting the strongest and most determined claw and elbow its way to the top.

Janus Manhattan 1945 : Atomic ISOLATIONISM & Penicillin's NEW DEAL

Janus Manhattan Island had something for everyone in 1945.

The spirit of ISOLATIONISM , last seen going under in the wake of Pearl Harbour, was back stronger than ever , albeit in a new Easter bonnet.

For God's America had decided its role was no longer to stand above and away from a wicked, wicked European-dominated world.

Rather it was to become God's avenging angel , benevolently ruling over a badly fallen world , with a velvet fist in a nuclear glove.

Scarce British penicillin , 1943 -1944 -1945 : a CHOICE or a failure ?

Churchill's electoral defeat in July 1945 was ensured in late September 1942.

To prove that it really did reject the soon to be released Beveridge Report, the British (Conservative Party-dominated) government's all-powerful Ministry of Supply (MOS), together with representatives of the academic-military-civil servant medical science establishment, met on that date to set the British Commonwealth's production levels for penicillin for the remainder of the war.

(And first let us remind ourselves, because today's English academics - save only David Edgerton  - never do , that the civilian and military populations of the 1940s British Commonwealth cum Empire were larger than those of America.)