Nagasaki

But for inadvertent cloud cover on the primary target, Nagasaki would not be a popular search term. Another Japanese city would have experienced total destruction. War what it isn't good for? Truman made the call. And who are we to second judge this call? Most of us do not even remember war much less understand the circumstances of executive decisions that take lives in order to save others.

I am thankful that I am only spared these kind of decisions so I do not have to look deep into my own abyss for fear of what I would see. I am sure the abyss is laced with evil. The bomb's destruction survives. The lives it saved is seldom remembered. The evil that men do survives while the good is buried with their bones.

Truman looked into his own personal abyss and still slept at night so we believe. It is likely he did not hate any of the reported 70,000 people who died at Nagasaki. It is also likely he did not know any of them either. He may have met some of the survivors and survivors children later in his life. I wonder what he said to them? The military, that were spared the future battles to end the war with Japan, understood. And still do I bet.