NEW BLOG POST: What newly-utilized documents — five drafts of a radio address written by Truman himself in August 1945 — tell us about his changing views on the bombing of Hiroshima. | A “purely military” target? Truman’s changing language about Hiroshima:http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2018/01/19/purely-military-target/ …
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To utterly destroy a military base with one bomb was not possible prior to atomic weapons, no. My argument is he only understood it was a city on 8/8/45. I don't think he knew 2nd strike was happening on 8/9.
As for collateral damage — I don't think he expected casualties in the hundreds of thousands of civilians, no. There is collateral damage and there is collateral damage. For what it is worth, even the scientists who knew it was a city did not expect the casualties to be so high.
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Thank you. It was well written. Easy for me to understand. And that's not easy to do. Old and slow.
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