Fallout by Peter Watson

Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

When we first began to develop atomic energy, the United States was in no way committed to employ atomic weapons against any other power. With the activation of the Manhattan Project, however, the situation began to change. Our work was extremely costly, both in money and in its interference with the rest of the war effort. As time went on, and as we poured more and more money and effort into the project, the government became increasingly committed to the ultimate use of the bomb, and while it has often been said that we undertook development of this terrible weapon so that Hitler would not get it first, the fact remains that the original decision to make the project an all-out effort was based upon using it to end the war . . . The first serious mention of the possibility that the atomic bomb might not be used came after V-E Day, when Under Secretary of War [Robert P.] Patterson asked me whether the surrender of Europe might not alter our plans for dropping the bomb on Japan. I said I could see no reason why the decision taken by President Roosevelt when he approved the tremendous effort involved in the Manhattan Project should be changed for that reaon.14

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