Does the probability that the Germans or the Japanese would have used the atomic bomb against the United States, if they had developed it first, strengthen the moral posi tion of the United States? If...

Does the probability that the Germans or the Japanese would have used the atomic
bomb against the United States, if they had developed it first, strengthen the moral posi
tion of the United States? If Truman had announced at Potsdam that the United States
had the atomic bomb, would the Japanese have been likely to surrender at once? Was
the United States shortsighted in establishing a precedent that might one day be used
against it? Comment on Secretary of War Henry Stimson’s view that the dropping of the
bomb would prove war to be so horrible that there could never be another.