Truman the War Criminal
Below are some select quotes from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Admiral William D. Leahy, Truman’s own chief of staff:

[T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. . . . My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make wars in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

Major General J.F.C. Fuller, one of the century’s great military historians:

Though to save life is laudable, it in no way justifies the employment of means which run counter to every precept of humanity and the customs of war. Should it do so, then, on the pretext of shortening a war and of saving lives, every imaginable atrocity can be justified.

The Paulist priest, Father James Gillis, editor of The Catholic World and another stalwart of the Old Right:

[The bombings were] the most powerful blow ever delivered against Christian civilization and the moral law.

The distinguished conservative philosopher Richard Weaver was revolted by

the spectacle of young boys fresh out of Kansas and Texas turning nonmilitary Dresden into a holocaust . . . pulverizing ancient shrines like Monte Cassino and Nuremberg, and bringing atomic annihilation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Leo Szilard, the world-renowned physicist who drafted the original letter to Roosevelt that Einstein signed, instigating the Manhattan Project:

If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them.

Author Ralph Raico:

The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime worse than any that Japanese generals were executed for in Tokyo and Manila. If Harry Truman was not a war criminal, then no one ever was.