How To Change Language In Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3

[Roselee Kruppa]

Ihave kept poking around this issue for some time now, and written an article-length version of it (more on that in due time). I feel even more confident in it than before, having gone over the relevant documents very closely and talked about with many scholars (including at a conference in Hiroshima last summer), though there are some aspects of the original blog post that I would refine or revise.

Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.2

I wrote the Truman Library awhile back and asked if they had any information about this statement, and they helpfully sent me a whole sheaf of papers taken from the papers of Samuel Rosenman, who was a Truman speechwriter and staffer. They included not only five different drafts of the radio address, but also many pieces of correspondence that helped contextualize it. For example, I was interested to find that the radio address as a means of communication was decided upon around July 20, 1945, as an alternative to giving Congress a full address, because Congress was going to be out of session when he got back.5

The drafts are of course themselves the most interesting part. There are, as noted, five in the folder. They are all typed, and numbered but not dated. The fifth draft is not exactly the same as the version that Truman delivered, so we can deduce that there was at least one last round of changes, perhaps by Truman himself, perhaps not. There are, as we will see, some ways to date some of the drafts, based on the relationship between their content and some of the other letters in the folder.

The world will note that the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima which is purely a military base. This was because we did not want to destroy the lives of women and children and innocent civilians in this first attack. But it is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on war industries and thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge the Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities and save themselves from destruction.7

So that indicates clearly that the fifth draft was finished sometime after MacLeish sent his memo on August 8th. What happened on August 8th that would provoke MacLeish and others to think they needed to justify the creation and use of the atomic bomb? On the morning of August 8th, the first damage reports came back from Japan. These included the famous aerial photograph of Hiroshima, which was shown to Truman by Stimson that morning:17

Is this conclusive? Not at all! This is highly interpretive, based on a smattering of sources. But history is the work of interpretation, and if one wants to understand the interior mental states of the long dead, one has to engage in this kind of triangulation of sources. I think it is plausible that Truman did not understand the nature of Hiroshima, and was rudely surprised by it on August 8th. That another atomic bomb would be used on another city on August 9th, I suspect, came as a surprise to him (he was not given any immediate prior warning).

We remember Truman primarily as the person who was president when the atomic bombs were first used. We should also remember him, as I have argued before, as the person who ordered that the atomic bombs stop being used. And the person who, over the course of his presidency, did the most to establish that atomic bombs were not weapons to be deployed lightly ever again. One might see this as irony, but in my interpretation, it is not: it the reaction of someone who realized he had been badly out of the loop once, and wore that on his conscience, and determined it would not happen again.

Nice piece of work, Alex. I especially like that you end with the statement that Truman ought also to be remembered as the man who gave the order NOT to use any more a-bombs, which pairs ironically with his acquiescence to the inertia behind the original bombing.

This is one good bit of sleuthing to determine what Harry Truman knew or believed, and when he knew it or believed it. Your interpretation is made more solid by noting that Truman expressed no repugnance to kill civilians, per se, he merely did not want the first bomb to kill civilians. In a spirit of fair warning he wanted the Japanese to know what they were up against, before proceeding further with the bombing of industrial targets (and killing of civilians). That means he had no particular incentive to lie about his beliefs.

One lingering issue, though, if Truman was actually surprised that Hiroshima turned out to be a city, rather than a military base, why did he never say so? If Truman was surprised by the second bomb over Nagasaki, why did he never say so? Why would he keep these double surprises to himself, even after he was no longer President?

That leaves DC policy makers only a little over 24 hours to evaluate the photographs (photographic copies would have to be made upon arrival in DC eating up a few hours) of damage to Hiroshima before the Nagasaki strike is launched.

I believe that once it did sink in on Truman what exactly the bomb was, through strike photography; he inserted himself into the chain of command for future nuclear releases; instead of leaving them solely to the discretion of the officers in theatre.

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