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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We will have to agree to disagree because that is the first thing that would have gone through my mind if I was Truman.
But if one is asking, "did they frame it as bomb vs. invade?" the answer is "no." They did not. This is easy to establish.
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one can never know what was in someone's private thoughts. Often those are just as important as public comments
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I find it very difficult to imagine that what would happen if bomb wasn't used failed to cross Truman's mind
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I admire your efforts to distill what happened long ago from snippets of evidence.
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and your willingness to discuss these issues with all of us.
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I just can't discount things that I would have thought about even if not in the written record.
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OK, but that's not history. It's not different than asking, "how would I have felt if I was Isaac Newton and I invented calculus?"
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that's ok. I won't be writing any books on the Manhattan Project. I'll leave that to y'all.
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