When humanity ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
In case you’ve forgotten.
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5 min readAug 6, 2023
Seventy-eight years ago, humanity ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
When President Truman gave the order to greenlight the Manhattan Project after President Roosevelt’s death, he possibly saved my brother’s life.
Jack was serving on a submarine in the Pacific at the time, and without the bombs, it’s estimated that Japan would have continued to fight the war, not to victory; they knew they couldn’t win, but to force the US to make concessions at the bargaining table.
They hoped their willingness to sacrifice an unprecedented loss of life on both sides would be a bargaining chip to prevent the US occupation of Japan.
Until watching a 1980 film by Jon Else, The Day After Trinity, about the development of the Manhattan Project, available on CriterionChannel.com, I did not understand my family’s stake in the decision to drop the bomb.
