Doubt in the U.S.

"It is my opinion the the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was taught not to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying woman and children."

-Admiral William D. Leahy, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Leahy served in WWII.




"US Responses to Dropping the Bomb." Nuclear Files. Nuclear Files, n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2017. <http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/us-responses-to-bomb.htm>.