Reply #205: You know, the scenario you're so smug about dismissing isn't speculation: it *happened* on Okinawa

[Raskolnik]

Soldiers aren't killed in great numbers by civilians wielding spears and rocks and grenades (although there certainly were some killed in that fashion on Okinawa) but the civilians are butchered by the tens and hundreds of thousands. When a civilian runs towards a soldier with a grenade, or a knife, or a damn pointy rock, that civilian is going to die because war is shitty and the Japanese use of their civilians ranked among the shittiest.

And you have yet to provide an alternative to using atomic weapons to end the war. If the use of weapons is so glaringly wrong, then the alternatives must be fairly easy to point out.

*and here's an idea--next time you want to accuse me of having a "racist conception" because I've actually read some history and have some familiarity with the subject matter, go ahead and keep that to yourself, ok?