Osama bin Linden on America's use of nuclear weapons against Japan

That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits.  You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war.  How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?

~ Osama bin Laden, "Letter to the American People," November 2002

Radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, as

seen from 9.6 km away, in Koyagi-jima, Japan, August 9, 1945