Yeah, but do you understand? Certain things should not be an option to those who value humanity, civility honor and life.
Yes I understand completely.
On Hiroshima we experimented with uranium. On Nagasaki it was plutonium.
Do you understand?
BRIGADIER GENERAL CARTER CLARKE
(The military intelligence officer in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables - the MAGIC summaries - for Truman and his advisors)
"...when we didn't need to do it, and we knew we didn't need to do it, and they knew that we knew we didn't need to do it, we used them as an experiment for two atomic bombs."
Quoted in Gar Alperovitz, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb, pg. 359