That, however, is an invalid legal and moral justification for nuking Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. After all, it’s a war crime for soldiers to target civilians in
wartime. That’s precisely what U.S. officials did with their atomic bombing of
those two cities. There is no difference between, say, what Lt. William Calley
did in Vietnam when he killed innocent civilians and what U.S. officials did to
the people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
