[7thson]

Maybe it could, maybe not. Don't forget. By this time, our State Department was infiltrated with lots of sympathizers. It could have succeeded if we used the A bomb. At that time, in 1945, we - the United States - was the only one who had it. Russia, with the rest of the world, was in shatters. We could have taken a plane right over Moscow and wiped it out. No more Stalin, etc. Maybe if Harry Truman could have been given a glimpse of the future to come he might have ordered it. Korea, Vietnam, Greece, China, an out of control CIA, JFK, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, terrorists, the Iran hostage crisis, etc. Most of this happened due to Communism.

[Chemnitz]

Well, Truman knew about Communists in his government and he did nothing. See the published accounts of the Verona intercepts. He let a known-Communist head up the World Bank. Admitting the infiltration would have hurt his election chances. So I cannot Truman dropping a bomb on Moscow.