furthermore, he believed that the exclusion of western colonialism and the use of the atom bomb by the united states from the list of crimes, as well as the exclusion of judges from the vanquished nations on the bench, signified the "failure of the tribunal to provide anything other than the opportunity for the victors to retaliate." in this he was not alone among indian jurists of the time; one prominent calcutta barrister wrote that the tribunal was little more than "a sword in a wig". in general, fear of american nuclear power was an international phenomenon following the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki.