This article is a useful counterweight to the Disney propaganda US children are fed in schools. The documentation is very clear: the Japanese High Command didn't even know about the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; they were entirely preoccupied with the Russian invasion of Manchuria, which is what prompted the surrender.

Truman ordered the war crimes - dropping nuclear weapons on defenseless civilians - because he was cowed by Stalin and wanted something he could point to in order to assert superiority over the last of the tripartite wartime leaders (Churchill was voted out of office, Roosevelt was dead).

As victors never indict themselves, the firebombing of Dresden (another war crime, this time perpetrated by the British) and the bombings of H & N were brushed under the carpet and suitable myths were promulgated to justify the barbarity. We never like to look too closely at our own actions when they are hateful, disgusting - and, in this case, entirely unnecessary.