text: "Really? Hadn't heard that one before. Got a source I can access on this?"
  
  Whether dropping the nukes was to deter Stalin in Europe or Asia, it is often cited by the Left as the real reason (don't entirely agree) for using the atomic bombs.
  
  In any case, this is just another example of the today's historical revisionism that looks at historical events thru 21st century lenses and ignoring the zeitgeist and sentiments (6 years of brutal global war at that time) of times that they occurred.