371 | Evan Thomas: The Atomic Bomb's Legacy in a Disordered World
The Realignment
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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
In the post World War II era nuclear weapons are taken on a resonance beyond just what we're deciding between a bunker buster and a J dam or something like that. The most astounding thing to me from a policymakers point of view by showing up messy all this is Harry Truman on the night that he gives the order to drop the atom bombs. He writes in his diary that night, July 25, 1945, I have instructed the Secretary of War Stimson and we are in agreement that the bomb should be aimed at a quote purely military target.
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