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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How many of these people against the use of the bomb had any military service?
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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