Axis of evil

The decision to drop the bomb on Japan, characterized as part of an anti-American Axis of Evil, was justified based on a belief that Japs were less than human.

By whom? By Truman? Ultimately, he made the decision. If not him, then who else?

Furthermore, <b>what proof</b> do you have that his basis for the decision was that "Japs were less than human"? Was that an internally circulated memo as well? Can you go ahead and paste the part of US policy in August of 1945 that declared Japanese civilians as "less than human"?

Or, <b>maybe</b> it was justified based on the belief that it would <b>save lives</b>.