Why a ‘no-first-use’ nuclear policy could make the world a safer place
(James W. Carden. Life Site News).
Days prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson recorded in his diary a recollection of a meeting in the Oval Office during which President Franklin Roosevelt speculated that the Japanese were likely to attack soon, and “the question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.” It was, wrote Stimson, “a difficult proposition.”