"What we must do now is not make the world safe for democracy, but make the world safe for the U.S.A." -- working my way through Gar Alperovitz' 1995 "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb", current quote: As John Lewis Gaddis has commented: “News of the secret explosion in the New Mexico desert … greatly cheered Truman and his advisers, contributing to their firm stand on German reparations.…”62 An entry in the diary of General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, in the midst of this period (after a dinner on July 22, 1945) is also suggestive: “Byrnes—what we must do now is not make the world safe for democracy, but make the world safe for the U.S.A.”63 62. Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, p. 244. 63. Arnold journal, July 22, 1945, “Terminal Conference—July 10–30,” Box 272, Arnold Papers, LC. Just as I feel every American could benefit from reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to understand the conquered people we're standing on; I feel that Americans who believe that we dropped the atomic bomb to end World War II in Japan might benefit from reading Alperovitz' book.
-- working my way through Gar Alperovitz' 1995 "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb", current quote: As John Lewis Gaddis has commented: “News of the secret explosion in the New Mexico desert … greatly cheered Truman and his advisers, contributing to their firm stand on German reparations.…”62 An entry in the diary of General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, in the midst of this period (after a dinner on July 22, 1945) is also suggestive: “Byrnes—what we must do now is not make the world safe for democracy, but make the world safe for the U.S.A.”63
62. Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, p. 244.
63. Arnold journal, July 22, 1945, “Terminal Conference—July 10–30,” Box 272, Arnold Papers, LC.
Just as I feel every American could benefit from reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee to understand the conquered people we're standing on; I feel that Americans who believe that we dropped the atomic bomb to end World War II in Japan might benefit from reading Alperovitz' book.