ABSTRACT
Th e fi ghting there [in Korea] was fi nally stopped last July on terms which had been proposed many months before. Th at result was achieved, at least in part, because the aggressor . . . was faced with the possibility that the fi ghting might, to his own peril, soon spread beyond the limits and methods which he had selected, to areas and methods that we would select [the atomic bomb]. In other words, the principle of using methods of our choice was ready to be invoked, and it helped to stop the war which the enemy had begun and had pursued on the theory that it would be a limited war, at places and means of its choosing.
