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I would have gave MacArthur whatever he needed to win.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
I would have gave MacArthur whatever he needed to win.
- ksherlock 3y agoHe wanted nuclear bombs in NK and China.
- nickff 3y agoDo you have a citation for that? The only sources I've seen have said that others suggested offensive use of nuclear weapons, then scapegoated MacArthur when the studies were leaked/released to the public.
- kneebonian 3y agoI maintain that the second greatest mistake the US ever made was not giving McArthur the bombs he wanted.
- ksherlock 3y agoWhat's your number one mistake then? Not nuking Russia in 1945 or asking Stalin to help out in Asia?
- dangerwill 3y agoWhat you are referring to is allowing MacArthur to have nuked China when they entered the Korean war, aka killing millions of civilians and leaving the eastern seaboard of China irradiated for generations. We should be glad he was kept on his leash.
- okdood64 3y ago> leaving the eastern seaboard of China irradiated for generations It might depend on the particular warhead, but this was not the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
- mrguyorama 3y agoThe nukes we had by korea were much larger
- nickff 3y agoMacArthur repeatedly rejected suggestions for such use of nuclear and chemical weapons, stating that he would only use them to prevent an ultimate fallback. It seems that others, such as Bradley, Ridgeway, Truman, and even Eisenhower were more in favor of escalation than MacArthur, who seems to have been made something of a scapegoat upon his dismissal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur#Nuclear_weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur#Nu... Sidenote: I am not a MacArthur 'fan', but he was a very complex character