Originally Posted by Robbie

dynamo...do you think it was "okay" to drop the atomic bombs on those cities? After all...we are told by history books that is shortened the war and saved thousands of American soldiers from being killed.

And if a country were to be at war with another country today, and dropped a nuclear weapon on a populated city to save the lives of their own soldiers...do you think it would be okay?

And if it was a World War that the U.S. had been involved in for 5 years and it happened today...would it be okay?
As long as it saved American soldiers lives would it be okay to kill families like Truman did?

Or would you say it's no longer okay because it's a different era or whatever?

I think it was a war crime then. And it would be a war crime now. The only reason it isn't a war crime in the history books is because the winners write history. And there was nobody on the planet who could make the U.S. a "war criminal".

Still isn't.

But might doesn't make right (or maybe it does?)