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What 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
by dangerwill 3y ago
What 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