To quell the japanese resistance man by man and conquer the country yard by yard, might well require the loss of a million american lives. I have a hard time here, in the 20 first century, squaring the moral circle between the idea of a fair and bright vision, as churchill terms it, and dropping atomic bombs on people. But perhaps this should be taken into account, that i'm not living in the world where cities are being bombed and incinerated multiple times a week. And these allied leaders making these decisions are what to them might seem incremental step up in nasty s to us, seems like something that should never ever, ever be done.