[A.A. Cunningham]

Leeper shares the view of most Japanese: that Japan had already lost the war and that the bombing of Hiroshima, and of Nagasaki three days later, was wrong and unnecessary.

"Everybody knows on the left and the right that Japan was finished at the time the bomb was dropped," Leeper said.

Steven Leeper is a liar, plain and simple. Between the time Truman became President and the dropping of the bomb on Hiro, about four months, the United States suffered nearly half of its total casualties in the Pacific Theater. After the bombing of Nagasaki the largest air raid of the war was flown against Japan on the 14th because they refused to surrender. If Tojo had gotten his way we would have had to invade.

[snowsislander]

Steven Leeper is a liar, plain and simple.

And the author of this piece is engaged in highly questionable "journalism", because her very broad assertion about "most Japanese" has absolutely no supporting evidence.

It seems almost inevitable to find that she is a recent graduate Berkeley's journalism program.