>Kevin, this is just plain ridiculous.
>Throwing nuke on Japan was crime against humanity by any measure.
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>Look at the eventual outcome.
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>What's your opinion of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the goals at the time of the Japanese?

Pearl Harbour was attack on US military. Nukes were attack on civilian population.
Outcome is that unsuspecting city populations were evaporated, and that 'N' line was crossed for the first time
leading whole world into grave danger (post ww2 nuclear arms race)

If you want to think of it as an 'achievement', then we will have to agree to disagree.