Those are lies. Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki were military targets. Goodman is an ignorant ass.
The nukes saved thousands of American lives.
Both the Germans and Japanese often hid their military installations amid their civilian populations. They are to blame for endangering their own civilians.
Despite the number of combat casualties in military action since the end of WWII, we have not had to mint any new Purple Heart medals since 1945. In anticipation of the massive casualties expected in a full scale invasion of the Japanese home islands, the Department of War, as it was known at the time, minted over a million of them. The nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima saved all those lives.
Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki targeted and killed hundreds of thousands of women and children in a most horrific manner.
I’m not saying I wouldn’t have done it - but the military justification, which was to terrorize civilian populations and collapse support for the war, makes the wide-area firebombing into a “military target” in only the broadest sense.
John Goodman: “The allied firebombing of Dresden in World War II had no military purpose. Nor did the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Mr. Goodman would have scant good luck selling his brand of crazy to any of the Marines and GIs scheduled to make the first amphibious assaults of Kyushu and later Honshu...
Our own estimate of American casualties was 1 million taking the Japanese home islands...The bombs forced Japan to surrender, and saved millions of lives, on both sides...