Military

=Military=

Military For

 * Truman-

Military Against

 * Bard Memo, June 27, 1945- Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard wrote that use of the bomb without warning was contrary to "the position of the United States as a great humanitarian nation," especially since Japan seemed close to surrender.[|Bard Memo]
 * General George Marshall has some reservations and thinks that using the bomb is not a military decision. [|Historian's Account]