"Harry Truman, who made the call, later reflected, “I have no qualms about it whatever.” General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, who later served as Truman’s Army Chief of Staff, disagreed. In a 1948 memoir, he said that he “disliked” seeing the United States introduce “something as horrible and destructive as this new weapon.” In another memoir, fifteen years later, after his own stint in the White House, Eisenhower wrote, “Japan was already defeated and . . . dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary.” Today, the chasm between the two views is still deep, and unlikely to be bridged by the President’s visit. The White House has already made it clear that Obama will not issue an apology or revisit wartime actions." ~ Robin Wright
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-the-pope-saw-at-hiroshima