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Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Truman and his advisors thus fell under the spell of what the renowned American historian William Appleman Williams has called a “vision of omnipotence”. They convinced themselves that the new weapon would enable them to force their will on the Soviet …

Truman and his advisors thus fell under the spell of what the renowned American historian William Appleman Williams has called a "vision of omnipotence”. They convinced themselves that the new weapon would enable them to force their will on the Soviet Union. The atomic bomb was “a hammer”, as Truman himself put it, that he would wave over the heads of "those boys in the Kremlin”. More

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