Tuesday, December 2, 2014
On Air Force General, Curtis LeMay (Director of Strategic Air Operations in Japan at the End of WW2), Allegedly Wanting to Have Dropped a Third A-bomb on Japan; This One to (Further) Obliterate Tokyo
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It is said Lemay is the originator of 'bomb them back into the stone age' during the VN
conflict. Regarding the state of
nuclear weapons technology near the end of the war with Japan, we note that the Emperor announced the capitulation (to his people by radio) on Aug 15, while two
days earlier, the logistics vs strategy was being considered.
Unknown, but probably suspected by the military of that time, there was incipient resistance among the Manhattan Project scientists, some who were aghast
at the destruction of their creation.
A lot of the military brass was against it, too (Eisenhower, Leahy, etc.).
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