I don't see the need to move the A-bomb digression to another thread. It's probably finished now anyway. I accept Thorne's statement of the facts.

Conventional bombing of cities was routine in WW2, although that wouldn't have had the desired effect in this case. If carpet bombing had been used instead, we would have just had another Dresden - another war crime.

I just feel it was wrong to A-bomb 2 cities when exclusively military targets could have been used.