Five months before the nuclear bombs were detonated above Hiroshima and Nagasaki the US carried out Operating Meetinghouse which, over three nights, killed ~100,000 civilians and displaced 1,000,000 in Tokyo, effectively halving the industrial output of the whole city.[1]
Perhaps the general feeling is, when you've already gone to that extent, and the extremes and excesses of WWII in general, which killed about 60,000,000[2] in total, about 3% of the 1940 world population, another 100,000 odd doesn't make much difference.
Three percent of global population today would be about 231,000,000 people.
Perhaps the general feeling is, when you've already gone to that extent, and the extremes and excesses of WWII in general, which killed about 60,000,000[2] in total, about 3% of the 1940 world population, another 100,000 odd doesn't make much difference.
Three percent of global population today would be about 231,000,000 people.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties