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Article: Red, dead, or neither. (Albert Wohlstetter's article "Between an Unfree World and None" in Foreign Affairs magazine)
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- National Review
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- September 6, 1985
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RED, DEAD, OR NEITHER
IN APRIL 1945, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson briefed the new President, Harry Truman, about a secret program: "Within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history, one bomb of which could destroy a whole city.' Stimson's account of the decision to drop the atomic bomb appeared in the February 1947 issue of Harper's. The article is reprinted in the current issue of the SAIS Review (Summer/Fall 1985), along with several original articles on the aftermath of Hiroshima.
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