> How could detonating a nuke over a city not violate humanitarian law … ? Would you rather have millions of Japanese die—either from trying to repel a US land

> How could detonating a nuke over a city not violate humanitarian law … ? Would you rather have millions of Japanese die—either from trying to repel a US landing or through starvation if a blockade was enact—or 'just' a few hundred thousand? The atomic bomb was strangely the most humane way, that probably saved the most Japanese lives, of ending the war.