The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.
controversias en torno a los bombardeos nucleares
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Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman, 1950
December 2020
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.
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(1947 Arthur D. Little Memorial Lecture)
Major General Curtis LeMay, XXI Bomber Command, September 1945
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—Robert Oppenheimer
controversies surrounding nuclear attacks
Nowhere is this troubled sense of responsibility more acute, and surely nowhere has it been more prolix, than among those who participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. ... In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no over-statement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Atom Bombasının silah olarak kullanımı hakkındaki görüşlerden birisi
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.
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.
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Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr., 1946
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
الجدل حول القصف الذري على هيروشيما وناغازاكي
Дискусії щодо доцільності ядерного бомбардування Хіросіми і Наґасакі
Débat sur les bombardements d'Hiroshima et de Nagasaki
Debate sobre os bombardeamentos de Hiroshima e Nagasaki
Дискуссия о целесообразности атомных бомбардировок Хиросимы и Нагасаки
Debate sobre los bombardeos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki
Debat mengenai pengeboman Hiroshima dan Nagasaki