Steve: Talking about atrocities maybe you should study up on what the Japanese were doing to the Chinese. You will be shocked.

As for killing civilians in Japan. Yes we did, but we were at war with Japan and there will always be some "collateral" damage in a war. And the Axis also killed civilians. Many of them.

Dropping two atomic bombs on Japan killed a lot of people at once but more people were killed by fire bombing their major cities prior to dropping the atom bombs. lf you are concerned about the number ofs people who were killed by the two bombs just think how many more would have died if we had to invade Japan to get them to surrender. They being instructed to fight to the last person (man, woman, child).Yes the atom bombs and fire bombs killed a lot of people but not as many as would have died otherwise. Those two bombs actually saved a lot of lives, Japanese and American.