Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since his retirement as Secretary of War in September 1945, Henry Lewis Stimson has been living quietly at his West Hills, L. I. estate, reading, writing up his diary and reflecting on his long years of public service...
This week probably the most important chapter of that long career came from Stimson's pen, published in Harper's Magazine under the title The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...
Legitimate Weapon. In the fall of 1941 the question of atomic energy first came to his attention when President Roosevelt appointed him to a committee on atomic policy. In May 1943, Stimson was made directly responsible to the President for the administration of the entire project...
...feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.' They were warned and they sneered contempt. Our shame is that their contempt was so nearly justified, not that we have in the end made good our warning...
...phrase in Stimson's argument seemed to be "the conscience of the community." Did this conscience, in fact, match Nürnberg's law? The existence of treaties did not prove that the answer was yes. Convincing proof would come only if nations behaved consistently in accordance with the principles of conscience which Nürnberg assumed...