How many of these people against the use of the bomb had any military service?
Lewis Strauss on the use of the atomic bomb — always interesting that many early-Cold War hawks were critical of it. https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/strauss.htm …pic.twitter.com/dBuf0SpLvA
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Depends on "these people" but postwar critics included Eisenhower and Leahy. Marshall was unusual for expressing reservations pre-use.
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Not sure it matters to Truman. If the bomb hadn't been dropped and 2 million were killed in an invasion of mainland Japan
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The "bomb or invade" question was not how issue was framed at time. (And estimates for invasion fatalities much lower than that, anyway.)
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true but I imagine initial estimates didn't have US still losing people in Afghanistan now.
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There were also those within Truman's administration who lobied for a bomb being dropped so the effects of this weapon could be observed.
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