 She opposed Oxford’s decision to honor Truman on the grounds that Truman was a murderer. He was a murderer, because “choosing to kill the innocent as a means to your ends is always murder” (MTD, 66). The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were by and large noncombatants, neither fighting the Allies nor supplying Japan with the means of fighting them. She argued that killing these innocent people seemed necessary only because the Allies stupidly insisted that Japan unconditionally surrender.