John Hersey
"Hiroshima" Writes About Why Bombing Hiroshima Was Not Necessary
August 1946
Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey published
an article in the New Yorker magazine in August 1946, exposing the
lies about the necessity for bombing Hiroshima one year before
McGeorge Bundy Tries
to Counter Hersey's Article 1947
An essay by McGeorge Bundy in the January 1947 issue
of Harper's magazine and Stimson's biography, "On Active
Service in Peace and War" try to argue the necessity of
dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.