"The Japanese were ready to surrender and there was no need to hit them with that horrible thing," say, years later, Dwigth Eisenhower, at that time the maximum commander of the allied forces in Europe and Truman's successor in the White House.
According to some academics, before the Hiroshima detonation, Japan was already desperately looking for a way to surrender and for that it had even sought the intermediation of the Soviet Union, with which it had signed a neutrality treaty years before.
In the general opinion of society there was a great anti - Japanese feeling, especially after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Apart from this, many people were convinced that the attack was intended to justify the money invested in the Manhattan project.