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

Not at all. The death toll of Japanese civilians would have probably been greater during a full scale invasion than it was with the bombs... not even to mention the cost in lives of US soldiers, sailors, and airmen... and likewise Japanese military personnel.

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We only had a couple of the frickers, you don't waste one trying to bluff.

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This, too. Frankly, choosing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as opposed to Tokyo or Osaka, etc. was playing off as far as civilian casualties were concerned. They were smaller population cities with strategic objectives (weapons plants, military centers, etc.) that had not yet been heavily bombed.