Lord Cherwell told Churchill that six Lancasters carrying anthrax bombs could kill everyone in a square mile . As Jones puts it, ‘hardly less devastating than an atomic bomb’.
All very interesting, however...the aerial delivery of these types of weapons is highly variable, and many times produces undesirable results...whereas, the use of atomic weapons is much more predictable.
In addition the following is incorrect...
Roosevelt would seem to have been the controlling factor on the allied side holding the chemical weapons as a retailiatory weapon. Of course his decision of first use of atomic weapons is counter to that.
Harry S. Truman, then the POTUS, decided, not Roosevelt.
However, the first part of the referenced quote is certainly correct, IE:
Roosevelt would seem to have been the controlling factor on the allied side holding the chemical weapons as a retailiatory weapon.
No question about
that.