An interesting poll from Quinnipiac University found that American voters by a 61-22 percent margin say dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right decision.
Another 16 percent of poll respondents are undecided.
“Sixty-four years after the dawn of the atomic age, one in five Americans think President Harry Truman made a mistake dropping the bomb,” Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a news release.
“Voters who remember the horrors of World War II overwhelmingly support Truman’s decision,” Brown added, according to the release. “Support drops with age, from the generation that grew up with the nuclear fear of the Cold War to the youngest voters, who know less about WW II or the Cold War.”
By the Numbers
Approval of the decision is:
- 74-13 percent among Republicans
- 73-13 percent Voters over 55 years old approve
- 72-17 percent among men
- 70-15 percent among white Protestants, Catholics and evangelical Christians
- 60-23 percent among voters 35 to 54 years old
- 58-26 percent among Jews
- 51-27 percent among women
- 50-32 percent among voters 18 to 34 years old
- 49-29 percent among Democrats