Bernstein`s article, as published by Winged Wheeler (above) quotes many politicans, academics and generals. None were on the pointy end of the spear. Speak to any soldier, airmen or sailor involved in the war (do it quickly, the ones left are all about 90 years old) and they will tell you how thankful they are that Truman had the ba!!s to order the bombs to be used. BTW, "Dutch" Van Kirk told me a couple of years ago, that the Japs didn`t decide to surrender until after the second bomb was dropped because they were sure that we only had enough material to make one bomb. After the second one, they realized that it was a plutonium bomb and they thought that we had many more. "Dutch" said that we had a total of three bombs. Van Kirk died a couple of weeks ago. He was the last member of the Enola Gay.