The dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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What the Record Shows: U.S. Guilt at Hiroshima
By Fred Halstead, The Militant, 25 January 1965. This year, 1995, marks the 50th anniversary of the atrocity and an occasion to reprint Halstaed's article. Japan was truly making sincere requests for peace before the bomb. That the bombs saved lives is a lie. the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were murdered, not to end World War II, but to launch what later came to be known as the cold war.
Why America dropped the atomic bomb, by Ronald Takaki
A review by Patti Iiyama of Why America dropped the atomic bomb, by Ronald Takaki and of Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination
by Joseph Gerson, 9 October 1995. These books support the revisionist interpretation, for the authors see the event as opening the Cold War, but this is a simplification.
Story of A-bomb mistranslation released on tape
By Masaya Maruyama, Mainichi Shimbun, Tuesday 9 November 1999. Mistranslation of remarks by a wartime prime minister eventually led to the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II, and the story of how can now be heard exactly as it was told. The U.S. created an excuse to use the atomic bombs by saying that [Suzuki] ‘rejected’ [the Potsdam Declaration]. So, I think the U.S. purposely used the term, ‘reject.’
Myth Behind Hiroshima Story
By M. Renan Talieva, Common Dreams, Saturday 3 August 2002. The US still coming to grips with its reprehensible past and has yet to face the enormity of what its government did. The myth that this attack was necessary to defeat the Japanese and end World War II. Numerous books and the now-declassified relevant government documents belie such assertions.
Washington's use of ‘dirty bombs’
By Eulalia Bircsak, 1 February 2003. Fifty-eight years ago, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, U.S. imperialism dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This horrendous crime remains the only time nuclear weapons have been used against humanity. The bombs were the dirtiest nuclear weapons imaginable.