 In American propaganda, much was made of Japanese calls to devotion to death.Some soldiers attacked civilians, on the grounds they would not surrender, and which in turn served as grist for Japanese propaganda about American atrocities.Even before the American pamphlets warning of the great power of atomic explosions, newspapers commenting on the atomic attacks reported that the bombs could not be taken lightly; "The Nippon Times" reported that it was clearly intended to kill many innocent people, to end the war quickly, and others proclaimed it a moral outrage.