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One other thing,,,,
It was August 1945...
If Truman didn't drop the bomb and invaded, thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of mainly americans would have been lost. Of that i have no doubt.
If the american people found out that truman had a dooms day weapon and DIDN'T use it, he would have been shot and pissed on.
Truman had no choice in the matter.
The only thing he might have done was dropped one of the nukes on a deserted island off japan after telling the japanese he had the bomb.
He could have said, "ok, you can see what we can do to your population now. Your choice is simple, surrender and live or refuse and die. The next target will be Tokyo."
I am probably being naive, but it's the only option i can think of.
It was war.
War is hell.
Truman made the right call.
The british made the right call when the bombed the shit out of Dresden and the rest of Germany.
We didn't start it.
Awful but true.
I don't know if this is true or not, but i once heard that Robert Openhiember (spelling), the lead scientist behind the Manhattan project went mad after he saw what his invention had done. He never thought they would use it.
Maybe someone can tell me the story if there is one there.
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