Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morals & Techniques. Stimson and Roosevelt discussed the matter on March 15, 1945. That was their last conference. The next time Stimson went to the White House he went to explain the whole titanic undertaking to a man "whose only previous knowledge of our activities was that of a Senator who had loyally accepted our assurance that the matter must be kept a secret from...
...Within four months," Stimson informed President Truman, "we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history...
...Psychological Weapon." Henry Stimson searched his soul...
...list of targets was presented to Stimson for his approval. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were doomed...
...Face of Death. Henry Stimson did not see how any man could have done otherwise "and afterwards looked his countrymen in the face." Did his apologia have "a harsh and unfeeling sound?" He reflected: "As I look back over the five years of my service as Secretary of War I see too many stern and heart-rending decisions to be willing to pretend that war is anything else than what it is. The face of war is the face of death. . . . This deliberate premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice...