talk.politics.misc

* US * wrote:
>
> "Take, for example, Admiral William Leahy, White House chief of staff and chairman of the
> Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war. Leahy wrote in his 1950 memoirs that "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..."
>
> /~hns/articles/2001/
>

Admiral William Leahy must had been drunk when he said that, because
look what the emperor Hirohito said:

In his [surrender] declaration, Hirohito referred to the atomic bombings:

"Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the
power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of
many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, not only would it
result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation,
but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.
Such being the case, how are We to save the millions of Our subjects, or
to atone Ourselves before the hallowed spirits of Our Imperial
Ancestors? This is the reason why We have ordered the acceptance of the
provisions of the Joint Declaration of the Powers."