>In April of 1942 Jimmy Doolittle led a raid over Tokyo, using B-25 Mitchell bombers. A few of the bombers landed in China and the Chinese people helped save the Americans. In return the Japanese killed 580,000 Chinese civilians in the area where the Americans landed.
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>The battle of Manila saw the Japanese Navy, which was considered the most “kind” branch of the Japanese military, kill 100,000 civilians as they left Manila. The civilians were herded into a soccer stadium and machine gunned to death, or shot on the street.
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>The list of atrocities committed by the Japanese and Germans during World War II is long, but consists of only numbers of dead. As Joseph Stalin said, “If a family dies it is a catastrophe. If a million die it is a statistic”!

You've doubled the number of chinese killed. Was it better or worse to kill about that number with atomic weapons?