I’m reading Gore Vidal’s novel about the War years, and it’s been enlightening to me about some of the events of the time.

I was taught in [1970’s] history class that the Japanese were reluctant about surrendering. Since – and in this book – I’ve heard that the Japanese had been trying to surrender for a time prior to the atom bomb.

It strikes me that it was a science project – big then bigger – meant to put the fear of the US into the rest of the world?

Please stay to the General guidelines.

Topics: war, WWII, Japanese, World War, American, atoms, bombs, Truman