Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes about Surrender

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I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Surrender

Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.