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Nothing new here: https://teachinghistory.org/history-...istorian/22693

After noting that 20 American POWs died as a result of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to Japanese military commanders, and that between one and three American prisoners may have been killed by the Japanese after the bombing, Richard B. Frank states, “The average number of Allied prisoners of war or civilian internees who died each day of the effects of captivity at the hands of the Japanese easily doubled this toll.”

In a radio broadcast on the night of August 9, 1945, hours after the U.S. dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan, President Harry S. Truman linked the use of the bomb to the treatment by the Japanese of American prisoners of war: “Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.” In a letter two days later, Truman wrote, “nobody is more disturbed over the use of Atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed by the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war.”

https://www.wgbh.org/culture/2022-10...ed-in-new-book 8 more were killed at Nagasaki in the the 2 POW camps located there

in the camp that was just over a mile from the detonation point, they were really lucky. There were nearly 200 prisoners there and only eight of them were killed because they were mainly inside buildings. And outside where, in the open air as it were, ordinary Japanese civilians on the same radius from the detonation point died in very large numbers. So they're extremely lucky.

The second camp, which is actually where the Americans were, was about 4 or 5 miles away from the detonation point. They lost all the windows, roofs were blown off, they were blown off their feet. But they survived. And the bomb has actually been dropped not at the designated target, because they were running out of fuel. And if they'd have dropped it where it should have been dropped, then that second camp, the one with the Americans in it, would have been destroyed.