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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CopperCicada · M

In WW2 civilian populations were targeted. Somewhere between 3% and 4% of the '40 world's population died. Around 80M people.

I think it's too easy to focus on one war atrocity.

Not that I defend the bombings. I spent a bit of time in Hiroshima in 95. I think nuclear weapons are an abomination.

It just seems we fixate on this one atrocity. For good reason. But other stories need told as well.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

How did all those Poles and Belorussians die? @CopperCicada