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'we've got the cards': 56 years after hiroshima by Mickey Z (mzx2@earthlink.net) - August 05, 2001 |
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| It also made an impression on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director at Los Alamos. After learning of the carnage wrought upon Japan, he began to harbor second thoughts and he resigned in October 1945. In March of the following year, Oppenheimer told Truman: "Mr. President, I have blood on my hands." Truman's reply? "It'll come out in the wash." Later, the president told an aide, "Don't bring that fellow around again." "Why did we drop [the bomb]?" pondered Studs Terkel at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. "So little Harry could show Molotov and Stalin we've got the cards," he explained. "That was the phrase Truman used. We showed the goddamned Russians we've got something and they'd better behave themselves in Europe. That's why it was dropped. The evidence is overwhelming. And yet you tell that to 99 percent of Americans and they'll spit in your eye." Let the spitting begin. |
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Disinformation Article on Aramchek Revisited: Disinformation About The Early Cold War |
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