You're moving the goal posts. Japan attacked the U.S. We were defending ourselves against Japan in WW2. We used the nukes to win that war. So, it was a defensiv

You're moving the goal posts. Japan attacked the U.S. We were defending ourselves against Japan in WW2. We used the nukes to win that war. So, it was a defensive use of nukes. Japan proved it would not surrender, so the only option was to nuke them into submission. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers would have died.