Alex WellersteinVerified account

I don't blame him for expressing reservations. I expect any sane person would.

I'm just saying that if there had been an invasion and anything went badly for US after US choose not to use bomb

OK, but, again, that wasn't really the only set of options on the table. So this is a non-sequitur at best, false dilemma at worst.

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.

one can never know what was in someone's private thoughts. Often those are just as important as public comments

I find it very difficult to imagine that what would happen if bomb wasn't used failed to cross Truman's mind

I admire your efforts to distill what happened long ago from snippets of evidence.