[godfry n. glad]

Not to mention the "truth" of the "million American lives saved" by the dropping of the two bombs. That figure was made up out of thin air by McGeorge Bundy, who wrote the speeches for Secretary Stimson on why they were used.

What has been fairly well obscured by Allied "histories" of the end of the war in the Pacific is that Japanese sources were already looking for avenues to sue for peace before the atomic bombs were dropped. This was acknowledged by the Allied leaders at Yalta. The "necessity" of the atomic bombs was a rationalization...propaganda. It sure made us feel better, having repeatedly violated the standards of waging war we held when we entered it, the atomic bombings being the most egregious of the violations.