Tens of millions living under Japanese oppression. Or are you still claiming that "There weren't even tens of millions in total living in the whole Pacific Rim at the time."
I will admit I under estimated. Can you admit you exaggerated as well?
So is it worse to be killed or horribly burned by an A-bomb, be incinerated in a minute or two after a bomb falls on your house, dying over a period of weeks while experimented on by a Japanese "doctor" in a death camp
Only 100,000 died instantly, 440,000 "survived":
"On the morning of the bombing, 6-year-old Tanaka, her clothes clean and her hair brushed, was standing in the street with friends before heading to school. Moments after the bombers passed overhead, she was thrown to the ground by the force of the bomb, which exploded in midair over the city.
She awoke with her face and arms burned and her hair singed, and she wandered back to her half-destroyed home. When her mom came outside, she didn't even recognize her own daughter, whom she sent to school 15 minutes earlier." Just one story.
gassed in Auschwitz or have your limbs blown off and then drown in a sea of burning oil when your ship is sunk by a U-boat?
These, too, horrific. The effects of war were terrible throughout both theaters, on all sides. But they were committed by evil men. Not so dropping the bomb. That was done by supposed civilized men. Huge difference. That was the horror of it.
And no A-bombs were dropped in Europe to stop them. I am talking about those nearly half million who suffered from radiation poison until they have, or will die.
Sorry, but I don't share the point of view that the way Japanese civilians died in Hiroshima was somehow worse than every other way civilians have died in war, under Japanese control or otherwise. War is awful, regardless of how you die.
That is your right, unfortunately hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese may disagree, which is my point. They were killed intentionally, not "casualties of war". We knew civilians would be killed and maimed for life. That was the point. That is unforgivable.
I suppose you approve of the slaughter of innocent Native Americans for the greater good, too? For fulfilling America's Manifest Destiny?
My point is that people who argue against the atomic bomb claim that the war should have been prolonged by weeks or months until the Japanese surrendered through other means or the Japanese homeland was invaded, without paying any regard (or in many cases even knowing) that many were still suffering and dying under Japanese rule elsewhere.
And your family may now live in relative peace. Not so for the 220,000 remaining radiation-poisoned survivors of Hiroshima.
Just curious, have you served in the military? Seen the horrors of war first hand? I have, and I cannot condone nor justify any killing of innocent civilians intentionally to "perhaps save others." I am not God, and do not have this authority of choosing which innocents live and which die.