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Letters to the Editor: Readers debate the 'moral necessity' of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

'The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration, it might have saved another 200,000-plus lives,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

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