After some documents were declassified, American historians and scholars have been able to reconstruct another side of the story. However, there has emerged in the past decades another narrative that challenges this official version. In other words, it is the politically right version of that part of history. This explanation was offered immediately after the war, and sanctioned and protected by the government ever since. The bomb succeeded in forcing Japan to accept the unconditional surrender sooner than otherwise could be the case, thus bringing to an end of the bloody war. In light of the hell-like fighting in Okinawa, by dropping the bomb, America was able to spare hundreds of thousands of soldiers projected to be killed in a land invasion of Japan proper. Truman administration simply had no better alternatives. On the issue of whether it was the best choice to use an atomic bomb, there is the popular narrative claiming that the Harry S. Moreover, historians have already done their work in asking the tough questions and examining the inconvenient facts, but rarely their accomplishments have been projected into the decision-making level and even more rarely change has been brought along. For one thing, whereas it is laudable to look forward to the future and not simply “revisit the past”, but if the past has never been agreed upon, or even worse the past is nothing more than a selective narrative endorsed by the official discourse, how could we expect to learn valuable lessons and not to repeat the mistakes.