It worked, didn't it? That's what matters. Could you have thought of any other way to make 'dem commie Japs t'surrender?

Hiroshima (or Nagasaki, forgot which was second) was overkill, but I don't totally disagree with it.

You guys don't understand.

If the Manhattan Project had not come through on schedule then operation Downfall(also known as "X-Day") was to be initiated. Operation X-Day included massive naval bombardments supplemented by aerial incendiary bomb strikes. The casualties from those two alone were projected at over half a million. After this brutal bombardment which would've taken out most of the shore-line defenses, a D-Day style Beachhead landing was to be carried out all over the island of Kyushu. Then, after establishing a firm grip on Kyushu, the Allied forces planned to climb up to the mainland and surround and bomb the hell out of Tokyo. Since the Japanese would've had more time to mobilize the ensuing battle would've been the bloodiest battle in the war. In terms of casualties this would have been even more devastating than the atomic bombs as basically every city on those two islands would've been obliterated. Total projected casualties for the Japanese numbered between 5 to 10 million and American casualties were a whopping 4 million.

You wouldn't need to hit a large fraction of that to make the country drop out of a war.

It wasn't "a bit much", there's never too much in warfare.

The holocaust wasn't a war, it was a massacre.

The war was on the frontline. Where there are no limits.

I think it was needed, but Japan surrendered before the second one was dropped. The second bomb was unneccisary.

The holocaust was racial purification. The Aryans were simply removing the taint of the kin of Karl. It was not an act of war or a massacre.