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OCR Page 1 of 13REEL 5 - 7/23/53 - Page ( (VH)
VOICE: Well, the thing was really put up in a different way. The argument was on
the subject as to whether one ought to invade the home islands; that
you should not invade the home islands, conduct an air attack on
the
Japan without an invasion; that you should not use ax/atomic bomb -
Byrnes
At the beginning of this discussion, Burns thought the prospect of
the atomic bomb being any good was extremely low. He took a very
dim view of it.
XEXEX:
this is a serious gamble. Well, then, all of this projection, if
MR. ACHESON:
it involves going into China with American troops, get himself in
trouble with the fact that the atomic bomb, in fact, did go off, and
that the whole thing collapsed within a month.
left up
in the air on that.
Sg ARCHIVES E "NATIONAL RECORDS ADMIN
VOICE:
(I must say) they shouldn't have used the atomic bomb (confused) COVERIMMEN
Where would you have stood if you fought on for another year, and
then said, "Well, we didn't want to end the war, because A) it's a
nasty weapon, and B) we wanted to fix up Chiang Kai Shek!? I mean,
this seems to me to reach the heights of political unreality.
VOICE:
Or political reality - whichever you want to call it. (laughter)
VOICE:
The things that is, after all, so strongly adduced in 147 and '48,
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