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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1400762)4/27/2023 2:51:08 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (1) of 1575104
 
Our own military commanders were against nuking Japan.

Peter Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, told the CSpan network in 2015: “The confusing things is why Truman, who was not bloodthirsty – he was not a Hitler, he did not take pleasure in killing people – would use the atomic bombs, knowing that the Japanese were defeated and trying to surrender, knowing that they were not militarily necessary.

“What we assume as historians is that a big part of his motivation was that he was sending a message to the Soviets that if the Soviets interfered with American plans in Europe or in Asia then this was the fate they were going to get. And the astounding thing is the Soviets interpreted it that way.”
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