A defender of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan writes: “The choice Mr. Truman made is the correct one.” He says that it is easy for me “to be a Monday-morning quarterback.”(He must be referring to this recent post of mine.) And then he proceeds to be … a Monday-morning quarterback, maintaining: The Japanese government did not want peace, the Japanese army wanted one final battle on Japanese soil, hundreds of thousands of Japanese and tens of thousands of Americans would did in a U.S. invasion of Japan, and the Japanese planned to massacre all allied POW and civilian internees … Continue reading Some Choice