nostr:npub184x308kdsl8vry9kltzckrxq6kmwa496fgmwy38hhz7txflvfcyql90jwc "On July 24 I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. The Russian Premier showed no special interest. All he said was he was glad to hear it and hoped we would make “good use of it against the Japanese.”

Harry S. Truman, Year of Decisions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1955) p. 416.

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He knew we could make "good use of it" against his sorry ass, too, if we had to.