A document presented to Truman at a meeting in 1945 estimated 30,000 American casualties during the first 30 days of a land invasion of Japan.
It will note that about 70,000 nuclear weapons have been produced since 1945, that we can't uninvent them, and that we need to think about how to live with them.Ī subject of more import for the 'balanced' committee was the number of American lives saved when Harry Truman decided to drop the bomb. He said that the committee felt it was 'overloading the Enola Gay with everything that happenedsince fission was achieved.' In the 500-page revision released last week, the objectionable 3 percent previously devoted to the bomb's 'legacy' has become a few paragraphs on the last text panel in the exhibition. The museum deleted what Fetters calls a 'superficial' 15-page closing section examining the nuclear arms race and the like. Despite two 10-hour editing sessions and a fifth revision, the American Legion is not satisfied. According to Fetters, the American Legion responded by telling the staff that they 'just didn't get it.' Legionnaires requested a line-by-line review.
Leashed at the neck like a congressman tied to PAC money, the museum tried to 'adjust' the script to answer veterans' concerns.
