The Importance of Atomic Bombs in the Japanese War

Japanese civilians had not yet been mobilized to be soldiers at this time, even if there were a plan to do that in the future. They were just civilians going about their daily lives amidst the conflict they had no responsibility in causing. A child collecting scrap metal or a mother tending her victory garden were no different than a soldier about to leave for Okinawa or Normandy. If we consider that reasoning to be a species defense of a war crime, then we have to make the same conclusion about the atomic bombs used in Japan.