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Originally Posted by Magnetron
Still doesn't justify nuking old people and toddlers.
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Perhaps.
But you can argue that if the United States didn't drop those two bombs, millions more would have died. Imagine how many people would have died if the war dragged on another two years with a million Americans invading Japan.
You also have to look at this from a historical perspective. The Geneva Convention didn't exist then; An invading military force would brutally decimate and enslave an entire civilian population. It was either destroy them or they would brutally enslave us.