WW II

"Then as the crowning savagery of the war we Americans wiped out hundreds of thousands civilian population with the atom bomb in Japan, few if any of the ordinary citizens being any more responsible for the war than were we, and perhaps most of them no more aiding Japan in the war than we were aiding America. Military men are now saying that the atom bomb was a mistake. It was more than that: it was a world tragedy... And the worst of this atomic bomb tragedy is not that no only did the people of the United States not rise up in protest against this savagery, not only did it not shock us to read of this wholesale destruction of men, women, and children, and cripples, but that it actually drew from the nation at large a general approval of this fiendish butchery."

- J. Reuben Clark, October 1946 General Conference