I have noticed that when talking about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 using the first Atomic Bombs in history, that there never seems to be a mention of the fact that '''Bold textleaflets warning the Japanese people of the impending doom were dropped days and in some cases weeks in advance.  This is a fact that seems to have been forgotten over time, yet is important in showing that the United States at least TRIED to warn the Japanese of the coming destruction and death.  And when accompanied by the Potsdam Ultimatum we realize that the Japanese empire had plenty of time to back down, yet in their fanatical exuberence, did not.