They can “think” whatever the hell they want.
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war then, and saved millions of lives.
If it had not, we were poised to invade.
We estimated 500,000 US causalities among our troops, and 2,000,000 Japanese troops, with perhaps 8,000,000 Japanese citizens dying either as a result of fighting or suicide.
Using those bombs saved ALL OF THOSE LIVES.
My dad was with the 13th Air Depot (see posts above). They were to be the jumping off post for the invasion of Japan.
We just discovered he received two bronze stars for work his base did: the development of in air fueling and modifications of air crqft putting machine gun in frant and bombs in rear. Two planes flew in tandem the first with guns afire the second dropping bomb and then reversing positions. I believe they did some notable damage
Dad was in charge of making sure all material, food etc were on base and disbursed from the important depot in the South Pacific. He was also the judicial officer for the base.
And the Soviet Union declared war on Japan on 8/8/45. I wonder how that would have turned out!