For context: the secret agreement FDR and Churchill had signed days earlier.pic.twitter.com/4e6m1ppxeA
Interesting memo from Vannevar Bush to James Conant, September 23, 1944. At this point FDR was not clear on whether the bomb would "actually be used against the Japanese" or whether it would be a threat or not. Bush says, don't worry, we have plenty of time to figure that out...pic.twitter.com/8S9ZNZcLcU
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I suppose, even in Sept '44, most people would have never imagined how bloody the last months of the Pacific front would be. I'd only recently heard of the political corner Truman found himself in when he had to consider the potential backlash of not dropping the bomb.
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