BBCnews is carrying this comparatively even-handed look at the current state of the historical controversy regarding the dropping of the atomic bombs that ended WWII, events whose 60th anniversary are coming up on Friday and Tuesday, respectively. Personally, I've never understood or agreed with the revisionists, who have always seemed far more interested in pushing their own ill-disguised agendas than in finding out the truth.

Far as I'm concerned, David McCullough hit it right on the head: "How could a president, or the others charged with responsibility for the decision, answer to the American people if... after the bloodbath of an invasion of Japan, it became known that a weapon sufficient to end the war had been available by midsummer and was not used?"