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

[Dragonfli]

73. Oh, I get it! YOU are a five star general expertly versed in WWII strategy

Thus you know for a fact that not cutting children's throats would inevitably have killed millions upon millions more vermin, er I mean Japanese.

A compassionate exterminator of women and children (who'd have thunk it) plus you're so brilliant and prescient as to know the exact outcomes of each and every alternate universe based on each and every series of non atrocity based decisions and that all of them would mean the death of billions upon billions of stars, er I mean millions upon millions of school children and puppies (but probobly the billions of stars as well).

I have to admit in your prescience you know atrocity is the only prudent, hell the only compassionate direction to take a conflict.
I bow to your expertise as a time travelling uber general from the era AND a slider that can explore alternate universes via some sort of an "Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky Bridge".

Now I realize I must defer to your supernatural knowledge.

Oddly you in your brilliance failed to realize part of conventional warfare included bombers at the time that could drop bombs on military and royal targets without an invasion force needed to carry the plane on their backs, and in combination with a navel ring around Japan and superiority in their air could have been fully explored by the honorable generals for a viable plan to force a surrender before billions upon billions of stars exploding killing most Japanese.

I realize the only compassionate thing to do was to nuke into ash women and children. But I am not brilliant enough to lack empathy and a moral compass and so being, inferior to pragmatists like Hitler and Hirohito I would still be too darn stupid to commit atrocities.

By the way, since this conversation is over, I should tell you I apologized to AsahinaKimi on behalf of all those like you that cheer or justify the nuking of civilians in the home of her ancestors, perhaps you can personally apologize to her and tell her how it was in fact a humane act that she should thank you people for.