“The two bombs dropped on Japan were terrorist actions. The calculation was terroristic. Indiscrimination was terroristic. . The motive for this bombing was not an act of terrorism but an act aimed at ending the war as quickly as possible. Berger only sees the aftermath of the bombing and does not consider the emotional decision that Harry Truman and others were behind the necessary course of action. Truman would have had about a million casualties if he had chosen to invade Japan rather than bomb it. This may not change Berger's view, but it could change his view of the United States and the bombings. If there is anything emotional about the city of Kyoto, it spared it from the destruction of the second atomic bomb, which made Nagasaki a bomb.