"that year's tragic dropping of the U.S. atomic bombs"?
While it certainly would have been wonderful had Japan surrendered without having dropped those atomic bombs, these hand-wringers never say how many lives would have been lost absent the bombs. Because Japan would have been burned down to the bedrock under the millions of tons of napalm that would have been dropped on their cities from U.S. & British bombers freed up from the end of the war in Europe.
Simple question: 140,000 -vs- 1,400,000 lives lost; which is more tragic?
Also, "The scientists who had worked feverishly during World War II to create the bombs soon became their biggest opponents" - bad form. How many scientists worked on the Manhattan Project -vs- how many "became their biggest opponents"?