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2022
May 2022
 6
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Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 2)
What if Japan did offer nearly-full surrender terms to the US in early 1945? In the 1940s, just this was claimed — but it's not very likely.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
 2Photograph of the Suzuki cabinet, June 1945
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Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? (Part 1)
Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? Short answer: no. Long answer: also no, but it's a bit complicated.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hiroshima, Japan, Soviet Union, World War II
2016
September 2016
30
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FDR and the bomb
If he had lived to make the decision, would Roosevelt have dropped the atomic bomb?
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Germany, Harry S. Truman, Japan, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
2014
June 2014
27
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A bomb without Einstein?
How important was Albert Einstein's work or personal intervention to the making of the atomic bomb? Not as important as most people think.
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Albert Einstein, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Historiography, Leo Szilard, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
2013
October 2013
 4
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Would the atomic bomb have been used against Germany?
If the first atomic bomb had been ready in 1944, would it have been used against the Nazis? Surprisingly, Roosevelt may have been interested in doing it.
Tags: 1940s, Counterfactuals, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Germany, Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project
2011
December 2011
 5
Meditations
Origins of the Nuclear Black Budget
Tags: 1940s, 2010s, Budget, Congress, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
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