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1. Smaller than the support for no use/demonstration use options. 2. Hardly surprising that many wanted vengeance given Pearl Harbor and huge cost in blood and treasure of the war. 3. Our *actual policy* was to only use to get surrender.https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1043887782794530816 …
I'm fine with you on #1 and #2 but I'd suggest that #3 is a bit more complicated than that. There were a lot of motivations at the time, and a lot of different ideas of what the bomb would be useful for. This is clear from the primary source docs.
That's fine. And I'm not sure in hindsight that the bomb was necessary to achieve the goals we ultimately achieved. I'm just saying a strong faction of the public wanting a harsher approach doesn't change the fact we were seeking an end to the war.
I am happy with drawing a distinction between public and official rationales — it's why I think the poll is interesting.
Fair. I honestly had no idea there was contemporaneous polling on the matter. In the pre-Dewey Defeats Truman era, it likely wasn't great. But still interesting.
Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, many if not most scholars of political science dont even get a whiff of primary sources .... Their disdain for primary sources and dependence on secondary sources are self defeating. But....
Political science has largely moved to studying broader phenomenon rather than specific cases. And that lends itself to large databases. But those who use the case study method certainly use primary sources.
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