Victor David Hanson -- National Review Online
August 05, 2005 60 Years Later Considering Hiroshima. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online F or 60 years the United States has agonized over its unleashing of the world’s first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 2005. President Harry Truman’s decision to explode an atomic bomb over an ostensible military target — the headquarters of the crack Japanese 2nd Army — led to well over 100,000 fatalities, the vast majority of them civilians. Critics immediately argued that we should have... Sign in to see full entry.