70th anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Originally Posted by Politenessman

Its pretty simple, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate military targets (look up the list of Military HQs, Industry, naval docks, munitions factories etc) that were in both cities as noted below. the civilian deaths were collateral casualties in a legal air raid in both cases (the laws of war allow this, the onus is on the defender to site legit targets away from civilians).

All cool then!

With this sort of thinking, you can nuke every single country on this planet you are at war with - since it is totally 'lega'l and that justifies everything.
Hell, and I'm breaking my head here, it is all so easy in the end!