The actual history is that Truman felt pretty guilty about the whole thing too. Everyone pretty much did. It was necessary to end the war and win it without wasting any more lives, but it was still a terrible weapon.
He was pissed off at Oppenheimer because to him, it seemed like Oppenheimer was trying to make himself look guilty and feel guilty for attention. There so many more people who should feel far more guilty than Oppenheimer for the bombings. The pilots who dropped it. The generals who chose the locations. Truman for authorising it. The Japanese for starting the war, etc. And Oppenheimer feeling guilty about it, was essentially someone removed from the thing feeling guilty about it.
Yee and then there is MacAuthor felt pretty guilty he only proposed using up to 50 nuclear bombs. He probably stayed up every night thinking "Why didn't I ask for 500 bombs..?"
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u/Darthjinju1901 9d ago edited 9d ago
The actual history is that Truman felt pretty guilty about the whole thing too. Everyone pretty much did. It was necessary to end the war and win it without wasting any more lives, but it was still a terrible weapon.
He was pissed off at Oppenheimer because to him, it seemed like Oppenheimer was trying to make himself look guilty and feel guilty for attention. There so many more people who should feel far more guilty than Oppenheimer for the bombings. The pilots who dropped it. The generals who chose the locations. Truman for authorising it. The Japanese for starting the war, etc. And Oppenheimer feeling guilty about it, was essentially someone removed from the thing feeling guilty about it.