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(Lehigh University graphic on the history wars)
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I said that everyone who saw it who had a dad that would have been there for the apocalypse would have disagreed with him.
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\u201cThey started too soon,\u201d said Mac. \u201cToo many of use were still alive who remember. They had to change the story board to reflect the estimates of American casualties. \u201cAs you might imagine, I have followed this with a great deal in personal interest. In the CIA study of the end of the war are the minutes of a meeting at the White House with Truman, his chief of staff Admiral Leahy, George Marshall and Admiral King. They talked about all sorts of factors, but the one that was preeminent was the number of American kids who were going to die in the assault. Our estimates helped influence the course of the discussion.\u201d
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\u201cDid they talk about the Bomb? Did they all know?\u201d I asked.
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The Admiral looked at me sadly. \u201cThe President, Chief of Staff, Secretary of War and CINCFLEET? Come on. Of course they did.\u201d
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\u201cAnd the decision was to use the bomb.\u201d
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\u201cOf course. And it saved a lot of lives, American and Japanese, if our estimates from CINCPAC Hill were correct. I think they were. The revisionists will just have to wait until I am gone to say otherwise.\u201d
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The waitress returned with another glass of that Chardonnay for me, one for the Doc and a glass of water, no bubbles, for the Admiral. <\/p>\n


(Colonel Paul Tibbet\u2019s Enola Gay in the loading process for a special mission, August 5, 1945. The mission was accomplished the next day at Hiroshima. Air Force picture.)
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