” ... but more people died firebombing Tokyo”
Beat me to it. Not to mention the 1,000,000 or so civilian and military deaths that would have occurred as a result of a full-scale invasion of the Japanese mainland.
More like 1,000,000 American dead and wounded, and over 5 million dead Japanese, military and civilian.
No apologies.
Let’s not forget that the day AFTER Nagasaki was bombed the USA again mounted a conventional raid using 1000 bombers each loaded with twenty thousand pounds of high explosive and incendiary bombs. The again killed tens of thousands of Japanese.
What gets the Libs panties in a wad was we used two planes with one bomb each to destroy two cities.
If we had mounted a 100 plane raid and killed the same nothing would have been said.
Here is a link to the very last raid on Japan.
http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Last-Raid-On-Nakita/JAPANSDaysAfterAtomicBombDrop1.html