Hiroshima After Sixty Years: The Debate Continues: " President Trumans friend and Chief of Staff, five star Admiral William D. Leahy was deeply angered: The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . In being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. "