Yes, being the only country with an unknown number of warheads, plus an undamaged domestic industrial base had a lot to do with it, too. My point being that hi

Yes, being the only country with an unknown number of warheads, plus an undamaged domestic industrial base had a lot to do with it, too. My point being that his description of the moral calculus for the decision has little to do with any scenario without the same context. But not only because of the results, because the justification had to do with the necessity of defeating Imperial Japan rather than a comparison of the costs of the different ways of achieving that defeat. That is the criticism of the oversimplified ends justify the means justification for the use of atomic bombs in Japan. It wasn't about ending the war, it was about achieving aims that had been determined were imperative, through war, with a lesser loss of life.