What was left of Nagasaki, Japan, after the second US atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Here is what the bomb looked like from the air. Then-General and future President Dwight Eisenhower reflected in his memoirs about the moment he was told that Truman was planning to drop one (not two) bombs on Japan. "During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives." Prior cover: Hiroshima.
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