You know, I think it's a good thing overall that we didn't go with the second use of nuclear weapons by the United States. I think permanantly irradiating a 60 mile wide belt across the Korean peninsula would have been a bit much.

“The enemy’s air would first have been taken out. I would have dropped between 30 to 50 tactical atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria from just across the Yalu at Antung to the neighborhood of Hunchun."

Douglas MacArthur was the original gamer

he ought to have been oppressed for his gaming strategies including this lovely one

“You may ask what would have prevented the enemy’s reinforcements massing and crossing the Yalu in great strength, as they had before. It was my plan as our amphibious forces moved South to spread behind us—from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea—a belt of radioactive cobalt. It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes."

we did it patrick! we saved korea!

yeah, he was very much in the mode of 'this is a backwater and I can do anything, and I already burned a protest camp in Washington DC.'

"damn, if only we'd had the bomb back then!"

yeeeah, Truman took a massive hit in popularity for firing him, until people realized maybe nuking everything isn't the answer