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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (26520)	4/28/2004 6:48:26 PM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Manchester discusses this in The Glory and The Dream beginning at p. 378 of the First Edition. It is an interesting and brief description. There were 3 bombs--one used at Alamagordo, the other two on Japan. Manchester explains that it would take nearly a year to make a fourth. Manchester's entire description of the bombing and surrender is completed by p. 388 if you have it in your library. I looked in Truman's Year of Decisions volume of his autobiography and did not find much. At least, not what I was seeking. After the two bombs were dropped, Mr. Truman waited for Japan to surrender. Manchester states "For the next three days Radio Tokyo was silent, a silence so ominous that the President contemplated a resumption of mass bombing. At one point over a thousand B-29s were actually winging toward the Empire before he changed his mind and countermanded the order."