[1stFreedom]

>>Your views on the subject are unsustainable in the face of the newly declassified evidence.

No amount of evidence justifies killing civilians with the atomic bomb...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is a Samurai sword OK ?

[George W. Bush]

No amount of evidence justifies killing civilians with the atomic bomb...

You appear to hold some idea that people prefer to die by means other than atomic weapons. The truth is a larger number of Japanese, American and those in occupied Asia would almost certainly have died had we not used the Bomb.

Dead is dead. There's nothing sacred about atomic weapons. And the history of 20th century warfare demonstrates that there are no civilians in the old sense that they were noncombatants and were therefore spared. Those chivalrous notions about civilians were buried in WW II.