Amen to what Macabre Artist said. There are no angels anywhere, but the Japanese were clearly the bad guys. If it took the Bomb to stop them (and to show the whole world, including the Russians soon) that we meant business, we did the right thing. WWII was another time, when firebombing cities was an accepted tactic, and much of Europe was destroyed that way, horrible as that was. The goal was to cripple the enemy's war machine by flattening its factories. But the Japanese (and the nazis) crossed many lines that we never did. They truly regarded others as subhuman and treated them like we wouldn't dream of treating animals. In the end, I agree that the best proof of our being the good guys is that after crushing and occupying Japan and Germany, we not only got out but helped them rebuild themselves and become the allies and world powers that they are today. Show me another country that does this. The URSS only pulled out of Germany when about to collapse and left it in shambles. Evil acts sometimes perpetrated by US troops were largely aberrations, not part of an encouraged routine.

Truman made a big mistake dropping the bombs. We should have invaded the home islands and killed every last Nipon.
Mikhail: there were no civillians in Japan.

The audio cutoffs were glaring and distracting to the point I wondered if this had been deliberate on the part of Hulu or another censor. Fix it or remove it if this is a correct presumption. Otherwise, this doc makes a good argument for Nagasaki and Hiroshima, if I may seem so cold and unfeeling.