Many battles before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the Americans realize every Japanese citizen would fight the Americans. So came the idea to bomb Hiroshima. The US needed to show Japan that we had a weapon of mass destruction, and could keep doing this again and again. read more
The Allied bombings in Europe, then, and the firebombing and atomic bombing in Japan, seem to have been deliberate targeting of civilian populations: in other words, intentional attacks on innocent human life. read more