![]() ![]() ![]() Said, "I told him (Truman) that I was busy considering our conduct of the war against Japan and I told him how I was trying to hold the Air Force down to precision bombing but with the Japanese method of scattering its manufacture it was rather difficult to prevent area bombing (which massively killed noncombatants). I told him I was anxious about this feature of the war for two reasons: first, because I did not want to have the United States get the reputation of outdoing Hitler in atrocities and second, I was a little fearful that before we could get ready (with the A-bomb) the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon would not have a fair background to show its strength. He laughed and said he understood." In late July 1945, a week after the successful nuclear test at Alamogordo, Stimson and the president privately discussed the matter of targeting at the Potsdam conference in Germany. #Were the flight crew of the enola gay sociopaths code.
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