In 1951, after the Battle of Chosin Lake, MacArthur was in a very bad mood, he did not expect the war to end in a crushing defeat for the United States, and he looked at China, a seemingly weak but actually strong opponent, and was determined to launch a more crazy plan.
A week later, U.S. President Harry S. Truman received a letter from MacArthur summarizing the Battle of Chosin Lake, concluding with MacArthur telling Truman, "We should use atomic bombs to bomb Chinese military installations and wipe out communism from East Asia." ”
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MacArthur was the quintessential war maniac, and he could be desperate to win. Truman seemed to have accepted MacArthur's suggestion, and at a press conference late November, Truman told the media that the United States would take all necessary measures against the war, and when asked if the Truman atomic bomb was also one of the means of the United States, Truman did not deny it.
As a result, the news that "the United States will use the atomic bomb against China" spread all over the world, and for a time the whole world was watching. The atomic bomb was practiced only twice during the war, and the two cities that were bombed by the atomic bomb were Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The two atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, made Japan bow its head to the United States, and also showed the world the terrible things about the atomic bomb. At least, nothing can currently stand up to the atomic bomb, the most terrifying weapon in the world.
Now that China is under the nuclear threat of the United States, MacArthur really intends to do so, mentioning in his new plan that he only needs twenty-six atomic bombs to solve the war. Twenty-six atomic bombs were enough to destroy China's military and industrial bases and crush it.
Soon, it was reported that MacArthur had transported an atomic bomb to the Far East, and his intention was very obvious, and if the United States lost control of the war, he would immediately throw the atomic bomb into the battlefield.
Kim Il Sung panicked in the face of the menacing MacArthur, and soon Kim Il Sung visited China and met Chairman Mao. Kim Il Sung came here for one thing, if the United States really uses atomic bombs, what will China and North Korea do?
However, Chairman Mao's reaction was unexpected by Kim Il Sung, and after listening to Kim Il Sung's remarks, Chairman Mao's expression was very calm, and he said to Kim Il Sung: "This is completely intimidation, and it is even more a naked nuclear blackmail, and we will not eat that set!" Kim Il Sung did not feel relaxed when he heard Chairman Mao's words, and he frowned and said to Chairman Mao: "Truman himself said that they would use atomic bombs!" ”
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But Chairman Mao laughed, yes, Truman said that the United States may use atomic bombs, but did Truman really think so? That was not necessarily, Chairman Mao clearly understood that Truman and MacArthur were not the same kind of people, MacArthur was a war peddler, a gambler on the battlefield, but Truman was a politician with a deep heart. MacArthur's ultimate appeal was to win the war and consolidate his military authority, but Truman was not a general, but a president.
Besides, even if Truman did lose his mind with MacArthur, there was still a Soviet watch across from him. If the United States uses the atomic bomb, I am afraid that the most angry will not be China and North Korea, but the Soviet Union, and when the time comes, I am afraid that a big war between the United States and the Soviet Union will be inevitable, and China and North Korea will be poor and white, but does Truman dare to gamble?
Chairman Mao told Kim Il Sung: "Don't say that the Soviet Union has mastered nuclear weapons, Truman did not dare to risk launching an atomic bomb war, even if he really wanted to use atomic bombs, there is no need to say it." ”
Chairman Mao expected it well, and at this moment, although Truman followed MacArthur's advice, deep down, Truman felt that MacArthur was a madman.
For Truman, MacArthur is his biggest stumbling block, the loss of the Korean War made Truman more disgusted with MacArthur, this war the United States spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but the result was not satisfactory, MacArthur was unwilling to admit his failure, but held the White House accountable, saying that the White House hesitated, limiting MacArthur's play, which made Truman very angry, eager to immediately clear MacArthur from his sight.
Moreover, Truman was not the only one who wanted to sanction MacArthur, and since MacArthur continued to expand the battlefield, the United States had a lot of criticism of him, and even european countries did not approve of MacArthur's crazy behavior. Especially after the arrival of the atomic bomb in the Far East, the British immediately secretly contacted Truman and asked him to think twice, now that the war of the Second World War has just passed, no matter what, no one wants to go through the Third World War anymore.
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Soon after, Truman ordered the atomic bomb to be withdrawn to the United States, and Truman decided to take advantage of the boiling popular resentment to oust MacArthur. In any case, MacArthur was just a general and not a president, and he was great, but sometimes he wasn't that smart.
On April 11, 1951, MacArthur received a telegram from the United States at a banquet, which read: "As President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, it is my duty to replace your Allied Supreme Commander... At the same level, you should transfer your posts to Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway with immediate effect. ”
Whatever the future of the Korean battlefield, macArthur had nothing to do with it anyway, and after receiving the order, MacArthur was in a very awkward position, and despite his best efforts to remain calm, he could not suppress the resentment in his heart, and he said to his wife: "The president has taken the wrong way." After 52 years in the military, I was so publicly humiliated that it was really sad. ”
The five-star general, a general who can be called the founder of history, finally such a dismissal end, Truman did not even leave him the face of "resignation", as for MacArthur's fantasy of the atomic bomb war is even more a fool's dream, perhaps MacArthur felt that with the atomic bomb can be victorious, but in Truman's view, this kind of behavior is no different from sending to death, the United States can not afford to launch nuclear war without authorization in the case of the Soviet Union having atomic bombs, Truman himself is even more unwilling to drag on in the quagmire of war.
Maybe MacArthur didn't understand that most people in this world didn't like war, and as a man who insisted on expanding war in peacetime, he had long since become a joke in everyone's eyes. His ending is self-inflicted.
Chairman Mao anticipated all the outcomes, and the Korean battlefield was not just a game between China and the United States? This is more a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it is also related to the fate of the whole world, what about the atomic bomb in hand? In the end, the atomic bomb was not used, and the United States would eventually fail.