Who's the revisionist? (historical debate over the decision to drop atomic bombs in...

Opposition to the EnolaGay exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum focused on the supposedly revisionist view that dropping the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not really necessary to end the war quickly and without losing American lives. However, evidence that Harry Truman's decision was wrong has been surfacing from prominent military and civilian personalities since the 1940s up to the mid 1960s. However, the national newspapers and television networks failed to pick up such first-person accounts and new scholarly evidence even as they produced e