Russo-Japanese War, 87, 116
Rutherford, Ernest, 132–33
Sachs, Jeffrey, 484–85
Sadr, Muqtada al-, 595
Saigon, 329, 339, 387
St. Louis Hannegan-Dickmann Democratic machine, 142–43, 142
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 182, 385
St. Petersburg Times, 373
Saipan, 138, 145
Sakhalin, 173
Sandinista National Liberation front, xxxi, 412, 430, 455–56, 567
Sandino, Augusto, xxxi, 412
San Francisco, Calif., 242, 369
blackout in, 152
general strike in, 57–58, 58
United Nations opening in, 121–22, 124
San Francisco Chronicle, 58, 544
Santa Anita, Calif., 153, 155
Santo Domingo, 40
Santos, Juan Manuel, 603–4
Sato, Eisaku, 380–82, 381
Saturday Review, 198, 313
Saudi Arabia, 105, 189–90, 216–17, 219, 258, 392, 416, 420, 436, 456, 459, 460, 461, 468, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 488, 506, 512, 522, 523, 536, 586, 602
as future target, 522, 526
oil in, 189–90, 216, 217, 258, 505, 527, 600
unfavorable opinions of U.S. in, 524
SAVAK, 260
Scaife Foundation, 399, 405
Schelling, Thomas, 37
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 91, 181, 291, 294, 295, 305, 309, 316, 508, 510
Schlesinger, James, 390, 393, 398–99
Schneider, René, 373–74
school desegregation, 274
school lunches, 438
School of the Americas, U.S. Army, 338, 372, 431–32, 471
Schroeder, Gerhard, 521
Schneider, William, Jr., 685n
Schwarzkopf, Norman, 474, 478, 479
Schweitzer, Albert, 284
science, scientists, xi, 101
atomic, 198, 200, 223
German, 215, 223
H. Wallace as seen by, 92
radicalization of, 59–60
Soviet, 57
Vietnam War opposed by, 364–65
in World War II, 131–32
Science, 365
Scientific American, 19
Scientists and Engineers for McCarthy, 365
Scott, Nathan, 21
Scowcroft, Brent, 399, 455, 477, 516
Screen Actors Guild, 212
Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation, 81
seas, freedom of, 6, 27, 31, 98
Seattle, Wash., general strike in, 34, 35
Secret Service, 512
securities exchanges, 554
security, 560
general, 98
Sedition Act of 1918, 13
segregation, 221, 492
Selective Service Board, 364
self-determination, 6, 26–27, 30, 42, 468
self-government, 98
Senate, U.S., 12, 44, 318, 326, 335, 351–52, 371, 478, 496, 518, 551
Armed Services Committee of, 498, 588
Committee on Atomic Energy of, 186
Committee on Banking and Currency of, 48
Foreign Relations Committee of, 26, 65, 72–73, 74, 264, 291, 294, 352, 424–25, 520, 592
inquiries into banks’ role in economic collapse, 48
Intelligence Committee of, 398, 455, 563, 565
PATRIOT Act in, 505
peace progressives in, 30
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of, 383
Select Intelligence Committee of, 430
Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry of (Nye Committee), 65–79, 82–83
war profits hearings and legislation in, 71–77
Wilson’s “peace without victory” speech to, 6
Serbia, 3, 4, 28
Seven Days in May (Knebel and Bailey), 322–23
sexuality, men’s, 16–18
Shahzad, Faisal, 572–73
Shanghai, 85, 157
sharecroppers, 59
Sharia law:
in Afghanistan, 487
in Iran, 410
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 451, 454, 468, 470
Shiites, 457, 480, 528, 529, 531, 534, 595, 598
Shin Bet, 602
Shinseki, Erik, 590
short-range missiles, 451
Shultz, George, 428, 430–31, 439, 442–43, 445, 450–52, 456
Shulsky, Abram, 685n
Shute, Nevil, 284–85
Silesian-American Corporation, 81
Silver Legion, 53
Singapore, 100
Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, 87
SIOP-62, 298
Sisson, Edgar, 9–10
Sloan, Alfred, 63, 77, 79
Slovakia, 90
in NATO, 537
Slovenia, in NATO, 537
Smith, Al, 54, 63, 64, 90
Smith, Howard K., 208
Smith, Walter Bedell, 263, 268, 295
Smyth, Henry, 256, 283
Social Democrats:
German, 4, 45, 77
West German, 444
socialism, xxii, 16, 26, 30, 43, 56, 60, 72, 122, 188, 257, 273, 276, 322, 372, 426, 448, 467, 485
democratic, 373, 468
Soviet-style, 182
socialist democracy, 373, 446, 449
Socialist Party, 1, 16, 60, 62
socialists, 4, 36, 60
social justice, 44
Social Justice, 53
social programs, 438, 462, 484, 559
Social Security, 61
Soldiers’, Sailors’, and Workmen’s Council, 34
Solidarity trade union federation, 468
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 485–86
Somalia, xvi, 406, 408, 416, 574
as future target, 523, 526
on global corruption index, 507, 533, 583
Somoza Debayle, Anastasio, xxxi, 262, 412, 430
Sophocles, 226
Sorenson, Theodore, 289–90, 295, 314, 316, 318
“Sources of Soviet Conduct, The” (Kennan), 209–10
South Africa, 424, 456, 484
South America, 203, 603
South Asia, 105, 518
South Asians, in the wake of 9/11, 504
South Carolina, 492
South China Sea, 606–8, 610
Southeast Asia, 238, 266, 305, 315, 328, 347, 349
Southern Negro Youth Congress, 221
South Korea, 196, 235–39, 241–42, 244–46, 250–51, 263, 338, 429, 605, 606, 609
South Pacific Fleet, U.S., 177
South Yemen, 408
Soviet republics:
former, 481, 485, 488
in NATO, 537
Soviet Union, 45, 180, 201, 202, 213, 214, 215, 236, 242, 249, 257–59, 263, 268, 270, 286, 287, 304, 309, 348, 362–63, 421, 477
in Afghanistan, 408, 412–16, 446, 459–61, 464, 466, 467–68, 488, 506, 529, 535, 536, 571, 579, 581, 589, 613
Berlin blockade by, 219–20, 222
casualties of, 87, 106, 111, 114, 182, 214
China’s relations with, 223, 251, 349, 363
Cold War ended by, 463–64, 465
collapse of, 421
Communist hard-liners in, 481
concerns about German rebuilding by, 188, 189, 209, 219
conservative backlash against, 396–99
Cuba as ally of, 279, 303, 321
Cuban Missile Crisis and, 305–13
détente with, 383, 399–400, 404, 406–8, 413–14, 416, 426, 449, 468
deteriorating U.S. relations with, 187, 194–98, 201–26, 247–49, 255, 257
dissidents in, 425
economic decline of, 426, 438, 467–68
end of, 482
entry into Pacific war by, 111, 116, 122, 144, 147–49, 161–66, 165, 172–78
FDR and, 182–84
fear of U.S. first strike by, 443
first Five-Year Plan of, 56
German invasions of, 123
German nonaggression pact with, 60, 88, 102, 105, 124–25
ICBMs of, 274–75, 275, 278–79, 302, 306
industrialization of, 60, 227
international image of, 447
Iran and, 190, 194–96, 217, 259, 409, 410
Iraq and, 420
on Israel-Palestine, 218–19