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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Not sure it matters to Truman. If the bomb hadn't been dropped and 2 million were killed in an invasion of mainland Japan
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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Most of the dying to end the war was done by the Russians in Manchuria anyway. "Bomb to end the war" is a myth to justify Nagasaki.
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