“The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.” - Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Twenty-First Bomber Command during WW2

"On the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary" - Gen. Dwight Eisenhower

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment…. It was a mistake to ever drop it…. [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it…” - Adm. William “Bull” Halsey Jr., Commander of the US Third Fleet during WW2

“The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan…” - Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet

“the Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.” - Commanding general of the US Army Air Forces, Henry “Hap” Arnold

Approximately 226,000 civilians died in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki...... Most all of them were Women and Children!!!