371 | Evan Thomas: The Atomic Bomb's Legacy in a Disordered World
The Realignment
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The Right Call to Use Nuclear Weapons
I'm pretty sure it was a bluff. I mean, and people, a general good pastor, who was his military aide, he thought it wasa bluff. And Khrushchev basically... Why do you say bluff? So it was so he wouldn't have done it. Is what you're saying? Yes, but I don't know that because Eisenhower never said, but I... Oh, that's the point that you're saying. Yeah. We had to do it because the Japanese would not surrender. There's a whole revision in school that says, hey, no, didn't need to do it. No, I spent a lot of time looking into this on the Japanese side
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