PREVIEW: #RETALIATION: A-BOMB: Excerpt from a two-hour conversation with author Evan Thomas of the Interim Committee meeting in his new work, ROAD TO SURRENDER, when the decision was reached in the Truman Administration to use the untested atomic bomb on

PREVIEW: #RETALIATION: A-BOMB:  Excerpt from a two-hour conversation with author Evan Thomas of the Interim Committee meeting in his new work, ROAD TO SURRENDER, when the decision was reached in the Truman Administration to use the untested atomic bomb on Japanese cities, factories, people.  The decision is neither well informed nor well argued.  The decision is retaliation for the Imperial Japanese Empire's attack in 1941 and after.  The decision is made with the understading that this new weapon could lead to worldwide risk of conflagration, which it did.   More later tonight.

1944 Imperial Japanese Navy


Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252