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Re:North Koreans speak secretly to BBC from inside closed co... by dangerwill on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:12PM (#36345836)
What you are referring to is allowing MacArthur to have nuked China when they entered the Korean war, aka killing millions of civilians and leaving the eastern seaboard of China irradiated for generations. We should be glad he was kept on his leash.
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Re:North Koreans speak secretly to BBC from inside closed co... by nickff on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:24PM (#36346011)
MacArthur repeatedly rejected suggestions for such use of nuclear and chemical weapons, stating that he would only use them to prevent an ultimate fallback. It seems that others, such as Bradley, Ridgeway, Truman, and even Eisenhower were more in favor of escalation than MacArthur, who seems to have been made something of a scapegoat upon his dismissal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur#Nu...

Sidenote: I am not a MacArthur 'fan', but he was a very complex character

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Re:North Koreans speak secretly to BBC from inside closed co... by okdood64 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:24PM (#36346000)
> leaving the eastern seaboard of China irradiated for generations

It might depend on the particular warhead, but this was not the case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

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Re:North Koreans speak secretly to BBC from inside closed co... by mrguyorama on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:43PM (#36346269)
The nukes we had by korea were much larger
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