re: #205 Bubblehead II

But we didn’t. We killed civilian men, women and children without remorse, with the sole sole of goal of destroying an enemy’s capabilities to produce war/use war materials.

I wouldn’t assume that there was no remorse, but the goal was not to reduce their capabilities, it was to gain surrender, because the Japanese did not know that we had only two bombs. They were already unable to wage war outside their country and the alternative to surrender was full scale invasion, which they estimated could cost hundreds of thousands of US lives.

I believe there were actually more civilians killed in German city firebombings than in Japan, for what that is worth.