"I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives" —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan. — Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all." — Major General Curtis LeMay "The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment … It was a mistake to ever drop it … [the scientists] had this t...