The Japanese love to pretend that they were just sitting around on the beach braiding flowers into each other's hair when the evil round-eyed devils suddenly targeted them for a weapons test. Let's see what the Japanese did: 1. Literally allied themselves with the literal nazis. 2. Launched military attacks on neutral powers without a declaration of war. 3. Committed their own separate Holocaust in Asia with a far greater body count: approximately 30 million. 4. Conducted medical experiments on prisoners of war including vivisection, amputations without anesthesia, and testing of biological weapons. 5. Used chemical weapons on over 2000 occasions, including on civilian targets and prisoners of war. 6. Tortured prisoners of war. 7. Executed prisoners of war. 8. Used Filipino civilians as human shields. 9. Ate prisoners of war. Yes, you read that correctly. 10. Committed mass rape of civilian women in conquered territories. 11. Feigned surrender to draw Allied forces into ambush. 12. Attacked hospital ships at sea. In short, during WW2, the entire nation of Japan descended to a level of savagery that made the nazis and even the communists look like amateurs. By contrast, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as military targets, and were struck three days apart, giving the Japanese a chance to surrender after the first attack, which they did not do. Casualties inflicted by both attacks equaled 0.76% of the victims of Japanese war crimes. Not only were the twin nuclear strikes entirely justified, they were a measured, controlled, and understated response. It would have made complete sense for the United States to use one or both weapons to level Tokyo instead. The imperial Japanese were worse than the nazis. Their body count was worse, their atrocities were worse, their evil was worse. And the moral of this story is "don't be a fucking fascist, don't do fascist shit, and then decent people won't have to kill you in order to save innocent lives".