Thank you for posting the Newsmax article; I learned a lot I didn’t know from it. I had posted my previous comment before I read that article. I still think it is unfair for people to judge Harry Truman using information only known through hindsight. FYI, substantially more civilians were killed during the bombing of Dresden, Germany by Britain and the United States than were killed in either of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki./rwa
James Bradley mentioned that in Flyboys. He also went on to write that Gen. Curtis LeMay's XX Bomber Command caused even more death and destruction during 1945 with its incendiary bombing raids of Japanese cities. Bradley cited a quote by LeMay:
“If I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.” quoted in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, © 1995.