I have mentioned this before.  My mother's cousin was a close friend
of John Eisenhower, Ike's son.  As a medical doctor, he was part of a
group to study the benefits of dropping an atomic bomb in Korea.  The
problem was that the prevailing winds would have dropped the radiation
largely in the South, where the US troops were.  He also told me that
the so-called Bataan Death March was not was advertised.  The US
troops and their Japanese captors got the same rations.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Chuck Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I finally got to a pretty stunning section which was the opening of the cold
> war
> and the lead into Korea. Every general on the payroll wanted a fleet of
> B-29s and about fifty atom bombs to have at Korea, China, just about
> anywhere in Asia, well for no particular reason
>
> So I was finally appalled. The anti-commie stuff had all the substance of a
> wave of anti-intellectualism, something like penis envy in liberal arts
>
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