".......And heard great Argument
About it and About. But ever I came
Out by that Same Door Wherein I Went.....(Fitzgerald: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam).
There is a simple way to look at this "great Argument", which has rumbled on for the last 70 years:
If, in August 1945, the Allies had known that Japan had developed a nuclear weapon, and a credible means of delivery to the W. Coast of the US, would Truman have authorised the use of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs ?
What's your answer ? And if is put in rebuttal that Truman was a trigger-happy madman, anyway, then consider that he also refused MacArthur's request to end the Korean war the same way, and in fact dismissed him from that Command.
Last edited by Danny42C; 10th May 2015 at 02:22.
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