Talk:Hiroshima/@comment-25207664-20140915200406/@comment-25148755-20150315161125

That's probably because the Nazis didn't have an atomic bomb to use...and yes, the Axis powers committed plenty of atrocities including destroying cities and killing civilians. London was pounded into the ground. Stalingrad was annihilated. Six million Jews and another five million other "undesireables" were killed as part of the Holocaust. The Japanese committed their share of war crimes too...look at reports of how Chinese women were treated in the Japanese labor camps.

The bomb was terrible, and you can argue whether it should have been used or not all day. The bottom line is it was used, it probably ultimately limited the number of civilian casualties and absolutely shortened the war. War is hell. I'm not proud America resorted to those tactics, but I'm glad we did.