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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Well we'll never know as the US acted hastily. The fact is that as well this report, members of the US high command and many of the members of the manhattan project were against the bombing at that stage.
They knew what the effects would be and even went as far as to cover up the effects of the fallout.
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The report sourced The UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY 1946' does not support your statement or the John Pilger article in the Guardian.
The USSBS of 1946' conclussion used by John Pilger in the Guardian article you sourced was a product of a disgruntled bureacrat Paul Nitze who pasted his 'theory' unchecked into the conclussion of the USSBS of 1946'.
The same Paul Nitze of the USSBS of 1946' in a l8tr oral history about the atomic bomb was quoted - “It seems to me that Mr. Truman made the only possible decision.”
This later admission not only undercuts his conclussion in the USSBS of 1946' it also undercuts John Pilgers article who used it's conclussion as a source in the Guardian.