Reply #80: I have no problem with the bombing of Hiroshima [View All]

[Yupster]

Japan still held huge slices of China including all of Manchuria. I could see why any president would want the war over now, rather than settling in for a siege for a few months.

On Nagasaki, I would have wished that Truman had waited more than three days to let the Japanese government access the damage and make a decision.

However, I don't think Truman owed the Japanese anything. They fought horrifically and there government needed to surrender unconditionally.