Should the nuclear bombing of japan in WW2 be considered a war crime?

I know that america likes to style herself as the "good guy" but how is the death of tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands including radiation poisoning anything but a war crime?

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SW-User

I hate war period. But if I remember, they really didn't know what the bomb was really capable of when they dropped it. Like typical American thinking.

Pikachu

@SW-User

[quote] But if I remember, they really didn't know what the bomb was really capable of when they dropped it[/quote]

Can you provide a source on that? I can't imagine that being true. It's not as if they hadn't tested nukes out.

SW-User

@Pikachu I know they tested it but they didn't expect the amount of devastation it was going to cause. The second one was dropped in the wrong location.

Either way, I hate it.