that the bomb was dropped on Japan. The atrocities that were committed by the Japanese military with the acquiescence of the populace precludes me having sympathy for them. However, it angers me when I hear that it was necessary to end the war. That's bull and just plain ignorant. Truman was a little man who wasn't up to the events of his day. I think he wanted to drop it because when he told Stalin about it, Stalin wasn't impressed.

What's more telling is that they continued building bombs after the war. They never stopped when the war was over. From the first bomb they just kept making them. It was like a perpetual bomb making machine. Once it started there was no stopping it.

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roger waters