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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The news of Nagasaki was already in US newspapers before Truman radio speech. Thoughts on why speech not changed?
It *did* change — they removed the "purely," and they shifted the language around to say they tried not to kill civilians as much as possible (not that they did not kill civilians).
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The entire tone changed from "look how responsible we were" to "look, we did the best we could" — a big rhetorical shift!
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I meant changed to say that 2nd bomb had already been used. Speech refers to post-Hiroshima bombs in future tense.
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