One of the difficulties in talking with Americans in particular about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that many of them have, at best, a half-remembered high-school version of that history in their head, and the subject is typically not covered well in high school.
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One can debate whether they should have or not... but they clearly thought this was something that a) took special consideration, b) was not merely a military decision, c) had unusual (for a military operation) civilian oversight, and d) presented new moral and policy questions.
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(And to be sure, not EVERYONE saw it this way. Some did not. But most of the high-level folks involved — Groves, Oppenheimer, Bush, Byrnes, Stimson, Truman, Churchill — did.)
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Who were the many?
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