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Truman became President after the death of President Roosevelt and, despite having little experience, proved more than capable of ending the war against the Japanese and managing the peace in both Europe and Japan after the war.Summary
This article by Steve Donoghue is a book review of Jeffrey Frank’s ‘The Trials of Harry Truman’; Donoghue makes the following points?
- The book concentrates on the making of a president.
- Truman had little experience.
- He was Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president for less than three months when Roosevelt died in April 1945.
- Suddenly, Truman was in charge of a vast, hyper-industrialized country fighting the greatest war in human history.
- Truman didn’t provide visionary leadership but was determined and decent.
- Truman oversaw the use of nuclear weapons against Japan.
- Truman hadn’t known about the atom bomb development (Manhattan Project) before he became President.
- Roosevelt had already decided to use atom bombs against Japan unless Japan surrendered unconditionally.
- Using the bomb accelerated Japan’s surrender sparing the lives of U.S. soldiers. See Fussel - thank god for the atom bomb.pdf (uio.no)
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- AUG 1945 August 6, 1945: Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima -UVA Miller Centre
- AUG 2020 Can nuclear war be morally justified? –BBC Future
- MAR 2022 Harry Truman helped make our world order, for better and for worse –the New Yorker
- Atomic Bomb: August 6, 1945 – National Archives Harry S Truman Library Museum
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