Victor Davis Hanson’s father was on a bomber crew (as I recall) in the Pacific during WWII.
In his young hippie days of the 1970s, VDH asked his father how he could justify dropping an atom bomb on Japan
his father replied - “the Japanese were killing 15,000 Chinese, Koreans, Philippinos, EVERY DAY. How do you propose we get them to stop?”
I’m sure it was not his father’s decision to drop the bomb on Japan.