Comment: Hogwash. The japanese were suing for peace long before the nukes dropped. There only condition was that they be allowed to keep their emperor. Truman refused, and wanted to halt the Russians advancing on Japan. That's why the nukes were used. Also we wanted live victims to test the bomb on to assess their effects. Roosevelt baited the Japanese into attacking Pearl by enforcing an embargo, preventing oil and other resources from reaching the island nation, and demanding they withdraw from their empire (while keeping ours of course). The Japanese were brutal occupiers, but so were we, having the blood of many thousands of Philippine resistance fighters on our hands. All Americans should read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Things you were never taught in high school. Also twice MOH decorated Marine gen'l Smedley Butler's little book "War Is A Racket," and Frank Dorrel's "What I've Learned About American Foreign Policy." Ignorance is no fault, unless it's willful.