287, RE: one more American dying was one too many. Posted by HoChiGrimm, Sat Aug-07-04 01:15 PM
Which is precisely why Admiral William D. Leahy, the highest ranking mili- tary official in the U.S. at the time as chief of staff to the president, "The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surr- ender.... The use of this barbarous weapon was of no material assistance in our war against Japan."
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