Scott’s anaconda is a military strategy developed by the North during the American Civil War. It was instrumental in the defeat of the South. It calls for laying a cordon around the enemy to annihilate it by constriction. The Allied forces applied it in the European theater in World War II and brought about the unconditional surrender of Hitler’s Germany.

It was the height of the depression in the U.S. No jobs were to be had and people were hungry.

Have paraphrased the title from a well-known book on the nuclear arms race, but the rest of the article is of my own steam. I am a sucker for the big historical stories, and few are larger than the dropping of the Bomb.

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