scarified=sacrificed
I hate the whole idea of indiscriminantly bombing a whole city as was standard practice in WWII. That said all throughout the Asia/Pacific region an estimated 10,000 people were dying every day due to the war whether through combat or starvation or disease caused by malnutrition. 140,000? That’s just two weeks of war. Without those bombs the war would have continued for several more more months at least if not more than a year. Just add up all those deaths.
What If Operation Downfall had to be launched? There would have been staggering losses especially among the Japanese. If just the Naval blockade continued another 6 months millions of Japanese would have starved to death let alone all the other people throughout the region who would have died. Horrible though it was, those weapons HAD to be used.