.@wellerstein If Roosevelt lived, Szilard might have met with him. Also not discussed: influence of Eleanor, Roosevelt's 'conscience.'
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Always possible, but no way to know. The bomb took on a momentum all its own after awhile, as Szilard saw (in horror).
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@wellerstein All that Roosevelt would have needed to do was to drop the demand that surrender must be unconditional. -
Well, it's not clear that actually would have produced a rapid surrender. There's enough uncertainty to go around.
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can you clarify why, in Dec44, "it was expected that the bomb could only be used against Japan"?
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interesting - aerial defence & conspicuousness, building resilience, possibly race (or possibly not). Thanks
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of course... both he and Truman are part of the same club.
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