Word: truman
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...diaries record practically everything Ellis said, did, thought, felt, read or saw, accompanied by copies of newspaper stories he wrote as well as letters he sent and received. This glorious mishmash constitutes an informal history of 20th century America by an inquisitive writer who interviewed everyone from Harry Truman to Irving Berlin to 50-cent whores in the slums of New Orleans. Ellis has willed his diaries to New York University; some professional historians regard them as a national treasure...
...ARGUMENT OVER WHETHER USE OF the atom bombs, as opposed to a full-scale invasion of Japan, actually saved Japanese lives is completely irrelevant. After 3-1/2 years of war, President Truman's duty as Commander in Chief was very clear: to end the war quickly and save as many lives as possible . THOMAS E. TELL JR. Somerville, New Jersey Via America Online...
WHILE THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO PERISHED in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have my heartfelt sympathy, I cannot help wondering how different history would be if President Truman had decided not to drop the Bomb. The hundreds of thousands who would then have died could have been Indonesians, Koreans or other Asians killed in a Japanese invasion. Hiroshima and Nagasaki remind us how innocent people become casualties of war-a war they may not want to support. At least the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped prevent what could have been the obliteration of humans on an even larger scale. CHANDRA DEWI...
...Soviets' test of their first atomic weapon in 1949 that galvanized Washington and U.S. scientists. Something bigger, exponentially more powerful than the atom bomb, had to be built, argued physicist Edward Teller. When Harry Truman was told of Teller's design for a hydrogen bomb, code-named Super, the President said, "What the hell are we waiting for?" The U.S. effort went into overdrive, partly because Washington suspected--rightly, as it turned out--that the Soviets were developing a Super of their...
...case would get to Tokyo." As Washington waited impatiently for word of surrender, the Japanese Cabinet tried to find out what on earth had happened to Hiroshima. Since the first reports seemed unbelievable, some Japanese leaders wanted desperately not to believe them. Others decided that even if Truman's announcement was true--that Hiroshima was hit with an atomic bomb--Japan should continue to fight. "I am convinced," War Minister Korechika Anami told his colleagues in the Cabinet, "that the Americans had only one bomb, after...