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Is there any evidence that Truman knew that Japan was going to surrender 'too soon' and that the second bomb was thus dropped intentionally knowing that it was not necessary to bring about Japanese surrender? If not, than while hind sight may or may not support the idea that one would have still brought about a 1945 surrender, since this is really just conjecture, it doesn't serve to indict any of those who made the call to drop it.
In the end, dropping the bombs saved both Japanese and American lives. While dropping only one, if it had the same effect politically, would have cost even fewer, I think it is far too insensitive to the reality of the time to consider it acceptable to have dropped one, yet criminal to have dropped two. The facts simply don't support such a proposition.
Josh
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