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"Truman wanted to drop the bomb to show off" is when I closed the window.



And most of us would expect no less.













Truman was sending a message to the Soviets as wll as to the Japanese. Some would call that showing off I would call it pragmatism. Interesting how astute that President Eisenhower was when he warned us of the corporate thirst for neverending war of the military industial complex, and they are the ones controlling our government today. 48 years.. the man was indeed prophetic.

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Revisionist history.

"Truman wanted to drop the bomb to show off" is when I closed the window.



“If it explodes as I think it will, I’ll certainly have a hammer on those boys.” ”
Harry S. Truman to aide Jonathan Daniels on the eve of the Potsdam conference, July 1945. "Those boys" referred to the Russians.
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