Under what circumstances is it justifiable to use nuclear weapons against a civilian population?

[truedelphi]

70. I am aware of the things you are bringing up.

And in a very ideal and loving world, where everybody is all about forgiveness and peace and happiness, ideas like yours would have been carried through. And I can say that I would have been happier with that situation.


But at the time, the Japanese were hated. Most people in the nation were indifferent to how much the Japanese suffered. (Or for that matter, how much people in Dresden Germany suffered, when our bombers made that city into a furnace that incinerated its civilian population.)


So the people at the top of the military/scientific community here in the USA were fine with going ahead and doing this. The public certainly danced in the streets regardless of the death toll in Dresden, or Hiroshima, or Nagasaki.