[Joe Boucher]

Like I said, in the book Wars End written by Maj Gen Charles W. Sweeney the true story is told about the bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. Not the revisionist crap offered by historians of today. It's one of those things, if you want the real story go to someone that actually did it. Why, what, how, when where as well as the reason nagasaki was hit. General Sweeney in an interview I saw stated when asked why he wrote the book said he wanted to make sure the real story was told before the truth was lost. No, Nagasaki was not the primary target that day.

[Angelique]

I definitely will read Sweeney's book.

General Sweeney in an interview I saw stated when asked why he wrote the book said he wanted to make sure the real story was told before the truth was lost.

You triggered a memory of seeing an interview with him where he uttered those very words. It did not connect until now.

I have been doing a little research, and apparently Stimson was calliing the shots. Supposedly, he had already advised Truman to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, but of interest: Stimson later noted in his 1948 memoirs, written with McGeorge Bundy, "Only on the question of the Emperor did Stimson take, in 1945, a conciliatory view; only on this question did he later believe that history might find that the United States, by its delay in stating its position, had prolonged the war." (Stimson & Bundy, "On Active Service in Peace and War" pg. 628-629).