Truman Was Right

Zachary Keck writes in The Diplomat that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was, on balance, a good thing. COTTonLINE concurs. See his conclusion:

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unspeakable tragedies (as was much of WWII). But whether one believes the decision to use atomic weapons was correct or not, and whatever one believes the motives of the U.S. leaders were, that decision ended up saving millions of lives.

With Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March and other atrocities, Japan begged for this sort of treatment. And got it.