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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriveOut" data-source="post: 2201885" data-attributes="member: 44954"><p>Here you go:</p><p></p><p>"Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second 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. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.' "</p><p>-Dwight D. Eisenhower</p><p></p><p>"The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan."</p><p>-Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet</p><p></p><p>"The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender."</p><p>-Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman</p><p></p><p>"The War would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the War at all." Except that it drastically speeded the War's end to deprive the Russians of territory in east Asia.</p><p>-Major General Curtis LeMay</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DriveInDriveOut, post: 2201885, member: 44954"] Here you go: "Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second 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. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.' " -Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan." -Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet "The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender." -Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman "The War would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the War at all." Except that it drastically speeded the War's end to deprive the Russians of territory in east Asia. -Major General Curtis LeMay [/QUOTE]
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