... have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. Truman's main purpose in using the atomic ... Japanese was legally wrong and unfair, I think it was necessary for the protection of America. After the Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, everything and everyone related...

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