Originally Posted by Richyrich03867

Speedyer ya stole my thunder. Every couple of years this issue get debated on this board. I only see the A-bombs as significant in terms of the new technology. The bombings of Tokyo and Dresden by comparison were far deadlier. Perhaps a better debate would be the ethics of purposely bombing civilian population centers by whatever means they were carried out. I am more interested in the debating the strategy that evolved during WW2 that
made this barbaric practice acceptable.