Au contraire, Dman. It is not some X-Files conspiracy theory, but a legitimate and respected school of historical thought, sparked by the 1965 publication of Gar Alperovitz’s Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power. He makes a decent case that motivations of Truman’s decision have more to do with the Cold War than World War II. What effect this has on your moral point of view regarding Hiroshima is for you to decide, but you seem to assume that accepting Alperovitz’s thesis is automatically equivalent to sympathy for the Japanese. You are confusing a legitimate historical inquiry with a moral judgement you disagree with.