But it was a drop in the bucket compared to the number of civilians killed by the Japanese in the sixty years prior in their war to make the Pacific a Japanese lake.
........More people, including civilians, died in the fire bombing of Tokyo........
You’re right!!
And the entire world is hurt by those who make August 6 “Hiroshima day” instead of Transfiguration Day!!!!
Which is what makes the annual discussion about the Bomb so tedious.
Our government had decided long before August 1945 that Japanese civilians were a legitimate target.
Every argument about the Bomb is nothing more than pushback against the idea that the American serviceman was morally capable of carrying out bombing raids which targeted civilians. (It was only the "Japs" and the "Krauts" who did Bad Things; anything done by the "greatest country in the world" was a moral necessity.)