By: David A Wargowski
In Lesley Blume’s book “Fallout” on page 146, Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey provides a comment: “Why reveal a weapon like that to the world when it wasn’t necessary?” he said. “[The U.S.] had this...
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NICE!! And thanks for digging into this. The full text of MAGIC – from the link above – is interesting. What was the US thinking of the USSR discussions with Japan? And what does this mean: “Stalin...
View ArticleBy: Alex Wellerstein
In reply to ejf. The US was interested in the discussions both in what it told them about Japan’s position and the Soviet position — the USSR did tell the US about them, eventually. Stimson saw it as...
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In reply to David A Wargowski. Yeah, it’s another entry in the “conventional military brass doubts necessity of the atomic bomb in the immediate postwar (in part because he felt it was getting too much...
View ArticleBy: Alsadius
Regarding footnote #2, my impression was that the argument was more commonly that the Japanese had been warned about gigantic bombing efforts, not specifically that there’d be new weapons involved. And...
View ArticleBy: Alex Wellerstein
In reply to Alsadius. There are two versions of the “warning” argument, one is about generic bombing efforts (often extended to claim, erroneously, that Hiroshima or Nagasaki were included in things...
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