Docks Quotes
At Potsdam the Allies had called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese and reiterated what had been allied policy that the surrender must be unconditional. Even after the Hiroshima bombing, the Japanese military cabinet voted not to surrender. After the second atomic bomb, the Emperor decided to surrender, but even then there was an attempted military coup to prevent that. Fortunately, the coup failed. We did not have any more atomic bombs immediately ready and it would have taken months to construct more.
The nature of war itself had changed radically as a result of technology and concepts of total war. Such a dramatic increase in the destructive potential of war then occurred with each major war since and what alarmed Eliot at the time paled to insignificance in the next century.