麦克阿瑟因为先吹牛后吃了败仗,抵挡不住志愿军的出击才节节败退,并非主动撤退!他甚至动了使用核武器的邪念,妄图轰炸朝鲜,中国东北和中国其它目标。
On 9 December 1950, MacArthur requested field commander's discretion to employ nuclear weapons; he testified that such an employment would only be used to prevent an ultimate fallback, not to recover the situation in Korea. On 24 December 1950, MacArthur submitted a list of "retardation targets" in Korea, Manchuria and other parts of China, for which 34 atomic bombs would be required.