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- Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (en)
- Major General Curtis LeMay, XXI Bomber Command, September 1945 (en)
- Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr., 1946 (en)
- Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman, 1950 (en)
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- The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan. (en)
- The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all. (en)
- The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment ... It was a mistake to ever drop it ... [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it. (en)
- The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons ... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. 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 not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children. (en)
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