«Potsdam: The Crossroads of Atomic Science and International Diplomacy». Atomic Heritage Foundation. 27. juli 2016. Besøkt 23. september 2018. «Finding a moment when both men were alone, Truman casually mentioned to Stalin that the United States had developed a new weapon of unprecedented power. He gave Stalin no specifics about what that weapon was, and certainly no information on how it was made or where and when it would be deployed. The Soviet leader responded with equal nonchalance, remarking to Truman that he hoped that the weapon would be put to good use against the Japanese.»
books.google.com
Strobe Talbott, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation (2009) s. 441 n.3; Lippmann's own book is Lippmann, Walter (1947). The Cold War. Harper.
Terry Charman (10. januar 2018). «How the Potsdam conference shaped the future of post-war Europe». Imperial War Museum. Besøkt 23. september 2018. «On the vexed question of what constituted a ‘democratic Poland’, the Russians and the Western Allies were never going to agree.»
Orwell, «You and the Atomic Bomb», Tribune 19 October 1945. Engelsk: Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery... James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications—that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbours.
