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avebury

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12. What he has to say about Truman is interesting

Reply to Archae (Reply #11)

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 05:50 PM

Dec 2013

if accurate. He portrays Truman as short sighted and short minded. If Truman thought that the US could keep atomic weaponry to ourselves then he was naive to say the least, particularly if he used the US atomic capability to blackmail other countries like the USSR.

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