Yes you're not alone and neither am I in my opinion. There's no absolute right or wrong, there's only opinions. I really don't think you have any appreciation of the death toll and suffering caused by the Japanese during their occupation of other countries though. And I doubt many of us here have any appreciation of what is was like near the end of the war after so many lives had been lost (except maybe dogsbody
). I can see how people could come to justify using such weapons near the end of a war that had already cost so many lives. If you had it in your power to use a weapon that would cripple and terrify your enemy into surrender without having to risk the lives of your own soldiers, considering how many you had already lost, can you really say you wouldn't have considered using it? A horrific decision to make but one ultimately I believe was justified considering the circumstances.