At 05:52 PM 3/7/01 +0200 Charlie Bell wrote:
>>
>> Why Harry Truman (IMHO one of the best Presidents of the 20th
>> Century) ?
>>
>Being the only man in history to use nuclear weapons in warfare, despite the
>enemy having already given indications that they were willing to negotiate a
>peace?
The first part is accurate, but the second part, as far as I know is not.
In fact, the Japanese were so unwilling to negotiate that we had the drop a
second bomb just to get the point across.
JDG
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