HIST 300 Chapter 13: After the Fact summary
13 Feb 2019
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Chapter 13 in after the fact uses the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki to discuss how historians use models to analyze decision making. General leslie groves (the director of the project), ernest lawrence (created cyclotron), and president truman play main characters in the narrative. The authors explain that the rational actor model is used when looking into truman"s decision. This model shows that the main actor (truman) acts rationally and will use the most efficient means to come to a beneficial end. The rational actor model can also be applied to other people, such as franklin roosevelt and all those that were involved in the development of the bombs. The rational actor model also accounts for how people analyze consequences and outside factors. Historian gar alperovitz believes that truman"s main goal in the bombings were to show dominance over the ussr, claiming that the u. s. had the war already won.
