W. Stuart Symington, III, Chairman of the National Security Resources Board, presents National Security Council Memorandum 100 to Commander-in-Chief Truman, advocating that the U.s. Air Force attack the communist People’s Republic of (mainland/“Red”) China with nuclear weapons.
Postscript: Fortunately, Truman did not act on this advice.
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References:
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 193, 202.
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