Originally Posted by
at6d
It’s hard to understand the scale of death at that point in the war. After Okinawa, what would you have suggested the course of action be? The conventional tactic would have been a mainland invasion with up to a million dead.
I think the use of a nuke(s) against Japan to save 1m US lives in WWII was almost certainly justified, but that's not what he said. RTFP.