{"id":2120,"date":"2021-11-16T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:09:33","slug":"j-samuel-walker-looks-back-at-trumans-decision-to-use-the-bomb-against-japan-on-thurs-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/2021\/11\/16\/j-samuel-walker-looks-back-at-trumans-decision-to-use-the-bomb-against-japan-on-thurs-nov-18\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Samuel Walker looks back at Truman&#8217;s Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan on Thurs., Nov. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\">On Thursday, November 18 at 7:30pm (via Zoom),\u00a0 J. Samuel Walker (author of\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: large\"><em>Prompt &amp; Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs against Japan<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\">and former Historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) reflects on President Truman\u2019s reasons and justification for using atomic weapons against Japan in 1945 based on the most recent historical information. He also summarizes the arguments of other historians and officials both for and against Truman\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\">Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:30pm<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong>This event has passed.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, November 18 at 7:30pm (via Zoom),\u00a0 J. Samuel Walker (author of\u00a0\u00a0Prompt &amp; Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of the Atomic Bombs against Japan\u00a0\u00a0and former Historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) reflects on President Truman\u2019s reasons and justification for using atomic weapons against Japan in 1945 based on the most recent historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}