Those cities didn't get vaporized. Relatively small sections around impact did. As the article pointed out the allies had been fire bombing cites for awhile.

Those cities didn't get vaporized. Relatively small sections around impact did. As the article pointed out the allies had been fire bombing cites for awhile. Which does as much or more death and destruction. We should be agonizing over slaughtering civies to compel our enemies to surrender, A bombs or not.