Greg Mitchell, blogger for The Nation and author of Atomic Cover-up, discusses his revisionist history on President Truman’s decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the US’s longstanding nuclear first strike policy; the top military figures against dropping the bomb on Japan in WWII; the government’s decades-long suppression of facts on radiation sickness and civilian casualties; and why Russia’s entry in the war was the real tipping point to Japan’s ultimate surrender.
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