He briskly defends dropping atom bombs on Japan;after Okinawa, the price of a conventional assault looked particularly hideous.A test detonation would have been folly.

• 他有理有据地为美国核爆日本进行了辩护，因为冲绳战役之后，再发动一次常规进攻的代价就有点高得离谱了，而核弹试爆也很不合时宜。