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Amid the widespread self-flagellation over Hiroshima, let me hail the clear voice of Joan Beck. Her pointed question–How would you decide the fateful choice; destroy an ememy city or save a million lives by stopping a war?–does two things. It brings it home to the reader, and it supplies the almost never mentioned reason for President Truman`s momentous decision to drop the bomb.
There are hundreds of thousands of servicemen alive today who can cheer that choice. And other thousands (millions?) in Japan who would echo it.
