re: Do you feel bad about the US dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?

I've known a lot of Americans who felt emphatically resolute that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was evil. I used the word "felt" emphatically. As with a lot of socio-political issues no measure of reason could sway them. They felt it was evil. It disturbed their amygdalae; to hell with a frontal lobe.

In my opinion the chiefest obstacle to their ability to consider the matter objectively was simply this: We who were born after 1945 have ALL been reared to "know" that using nuclear weapons against humans is a mega no-no.

And so be it.

But Harry Truman, et al, had not been so educated. No American in 1945 had ever been told by a parent, a teacher, a minister, a book, a documentary, or whatever, to NOT use nuclear weapons on people.

It's as simple as this really.