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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (107509)	8/19/2005 10:47:29 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Yes, I have heard of Occam's Razor. Usually a very good and simple and accurate way of looking at things. However, I cannot decide if that is a good way to solve this riddle without further study of the book in question. We have a very complex situation here. The Japanese author has done something no other researcher has done, if I understand correctly--put transcripts of all the allied leaders on a timeline and analyzed them, revealing that Truman's real motivations to drop the second bomb (which as I keep pointing out is what we are talking about here) were about controlling the world post-WWII. I think you also have to consider that when we talk about Truman, we are actually talking about Truman and his advisors, some of whom may well have been more complex thinkers. By the time we stop talking about this, we both could have read the new book! I don't think it is fair to call historians who continue to study history and write about it revisionists, as if that is somehow negative. History is constantly revised as more original documents or other information is unearthed. This is a healthy process, actually.