[SeaWolf]

The stench of Tokyo would have been worse after the fire bombings as would that of Dresden, not to mention Nanjing. Nuclear weapons just do the job faster with a different set of after effects. If you are not willing to fight an enemy to win as quickly as possible you are condemning vast numbers to unnecessary death and destruction by prolonging the war.

[Candor7]

Yes I agree. Violence can be waged with compassion.

But you know what? Too many like the idea of it as an end in itself, as if it were some kind of entertaining video game.

There is no Happy Dresden Day, No Happy Hiroshima Day, and No Happy Nagasaki Day.

People need to have there noses held up against a 3 day old gut spread, road kill, for a few hours.

There is no pleasure in killing, especially the kind that we had to do to save our men. Anyone who thinks so is more than a few cards short of a deck.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Maybe yes, maybe no. Certainly for those not at the epicenter not vaporized immediately, but on the outskirts exposed to the nukes might question this assertion. In fact, firebombing, to my understanding, does not give off radiation sickness months or years later.

This is something people in Hiroshima still suffer with, even 63 years later. Up in Tokyo, it is mostly horrific memories, but not radiation (cancers, keloids, birth defects, etc).