“He was big fan of the atomic bomb!”
Everyone who was in the military at that time LOVED the bomb.
A former neighbor of mine fought in Europe and was shipped to the Philippines after Germany surrendered. He had made the landing on Sicily, been wounded during the fighting inland and shipped off to England for recovery. Once out of the hospital and rehabilitation he was snatched up for Normandy. He was under no illusion he would live through another fighting swim.
When someone told him about the atomic bomb he asked what it was. Nobody knew.
See Paul Fussell’s article “Thank God for the Atomic Bomb”