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| 1a0de7c | Contrary to Stimson's highly influential but totally misleading account in Harper's in February 1947, "The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb"--written for Stimson by McGeorge Bundy177 while he was in the Society of Fellows, and a successful propaganda counter to the impact of John Hersey's New Yorker report "Hiroshima" in August 1946--there was no moral agonizing at all among Truman's civilian or military advisors about the prospect of using th.. | Daniel Ellsberg | ||
| e218c61 | A scholar as authoritative as Richard Rhodes97 was still writing in 1995 that the Soviets had over forty ICBMs in 1961, ten times more than they actually had. | Daniel Ellsberg |