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To: All; Rusty0604; Lakeside Granny

“He may have been the one, or someone on his team, that said they wished we would have waited a few more days to drop the 2nd bomb on Japan so that Japan may have evaluated and surrendered after one bomb.”

They did wait. After seeing the effects of the first bomb, President Truman WOULD NOT let them drop the second one until millions of phamphlets had been dropped advising the citizens to leave the area.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/truman-leaflets/


6,265 posted on 07/24/2023 11:03:26 AM PDT by Spunky (I lost my tag line. :-()
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To: Spunky

Didn’t know that, thanks Spunky.


6,273 posted on 07/24/2023 11:52:20 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Desperately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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